Reasons Quotes

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.