Reason Quotes - Page 99

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.

I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run was because he decided that someone was unbeatable. That someone was Jeb Bush.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

The only reason I left was to protect you.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.