Reason Quotes - Page 97

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

If there's anything I could undo - usually when I want to undo things its like right on the moment because I look to the stuff that I go through in my life and something always comes out for a reason so I'm doing that. But, its always that when you say something that's just so asinine and so stupid, you're like, ahh, if I could just, please, have an undo button just to not say that.

Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.

If you then cast a somebody, playing a nobody is always an additional effort. But that was not the reason we cast him. It was because Ben Whishaw delivered exactly what I was hoping for.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.