Reason Quotes

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

Everything happens for a reason.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.