Reason Quotes

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

If people find me attractive, it would be for reasons that anybody finds anybody attractive. It's something that comes from within, and it manifests itself physically.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.