Reason Quotes

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.