Reason Quotes

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.