Reason Quotes

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.