300 Quotes on reason

• Intuitive logic dances on the edge of ambiguity, unveiling truths enduring and surreal that deliberation alone can never uncover.

  Author: Sylia Bretton

• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

  Author: David Zucker

• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

  Author: John Zorn

• 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.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

  Author: Citium Zeno

• 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.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

  Author: Martin Yan

• And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

  Author: Steve Wynn

• We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  Author: Francis Wright

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  Author: Frances Wright

• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

  Author: Diane Wood

• The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

  Author: John Wise

• I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

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

  Author: R. Winans

• Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

  Author: Robin Williams

• The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

  Author: Claude Williams

• I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

  Author: William Wiley

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

  Author: George Whitefield

• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  Author: William White

• I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

  Author: Reggie White

• There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

  Author: Bryan White

• I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• I see no reason for recording the obvious.

  Author: Edward Weston

• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Author: Edward Weston

• No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

  Author: Timothy West

• The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

  Author: Rebecca West

• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

  Author: Rebecca West

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• 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.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

  Author: George Weah

• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Author: Alan Watts

• I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

  Author: James Watson

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

  Author: Ethel Waters

• The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

  Author: Wendy Wasserstein

• I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  Author: George Washington

• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  Author: George Washington

• 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.

  Author: John Warner

• The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

  Author: Shane Warne

• I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

  Author: Sela Ward

• Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

  Author: Fred Ward

• Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

  Author: William Warburton

• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.

  Author: Jimmie Walker

• 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.

  Author: Greg Walden

• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

  Author: George Wald

• You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

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

  Author: Bernard Voto

• Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

  Author: Voltaire

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

  Author: Voltaire

• The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

  Author: Voltaire

• The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

  Author: Voltaire

• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Author: Voltaire

• Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

  Author: William Vickrey

• For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

  Author: Alan Vega

• We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

  Author: Alan Vega

• Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

  Author: Cicely Tyson

• The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

  Author: Willie Tyler

• Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

• The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

  Author: Shania Twain

• If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

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

  Author: David Trimble

• Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

  Author: Richard Trench

• Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

  Author: Carrot Top

• 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.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

  Author: John Tillotson

• The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

  Author: James Thurber

• The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

  Author: James Thurber

• The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

  Author: George Thorogood

• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  Author: Richard Thompson

• We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

  Author: George Tenet

• And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  Author: A. Taylor

• For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

  Author: Allen Tate

• Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

  Author: Allen Tate

• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  Author: Yves Tanguy

• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• 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.

  Author: David Talbot

• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

  Author: Tacitus

• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• Mathematics is the music of reason.

  Author: James Sylvester

• Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

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

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

  Author: John Sununu

• 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.

  Author: Charles Sturt

• I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

  Author: Henry Stuart

• Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  Author: William Strunk, Jr.

• A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  Author: William Strunk, Jr.

• There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

  Author: Alfredo Stroessner

• The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• 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.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

  Author: Leo Strauss

• We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

  Author: Rod Stewart

• In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• In quiet places, reason abounds.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

  Author: Rod Steiger

• I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

  Author: William Steig

• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• 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.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• I call him free who is led solely by reason.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  Author: Edmund Spenser

• There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

  Author: Robert South

• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  Author: Sophocles

• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

  Author: Sophocles

• I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Author: Sam Snead

• My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

  Author: Will Smith

• I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

  Author: Will Smith

• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  Author: Nathaniel Smith

• For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

  Author: Michael Smith

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  Author: L. Smith

• Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

  Author: Jeff Smith

• Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

  Author: Frederick Smith

• In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

  Author: Charlotte Smith

• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• 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.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

  Author: John Sladek

• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Author: Tom Sizemore

• If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

  Author: John Sirica

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

  Author: Marsha Sinetar

• The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

  Author: George Simpson

• What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

  Author: David Simon

• For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

  Author: Charles Simeon

• Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

  Author: Clifford Simak

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  Author: Navjot Sidhu

• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

  Author: Michael Shermer

• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  Author: William Shenstone

• Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

  Author: Mary Shelley

• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

  Author: Sidney Sheldon

• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

  Author: Wilfrid Sheed

• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

  Author: Michael Shanks

• 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.

  Author: Albert Shanker

• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• How well he's read, to reason against reading!

  Author: William Shakespeare

• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

  Author: John Sexton

• Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

  Author: Joan Severance

• Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

  Author: David Selby

• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

  Author: Kyra Sedgwick

• Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

  Author: Jon Secada

• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Author: Robert Scott

• 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.

  Author: Hazel Scott

• What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

  Author: Ashley Scott

• Maria is the best reason to come home.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Virtue is reason which has become energy.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

  Author: Otto Schily

• A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

  Author: George Savile

• There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

  Author: George Savile

• The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

  Author: Terry Savage

• The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

  Author: Jennifer Saunders

• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• Habit is stronger than reason.

  Author: George Santayana

• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

  Author: George Santayana

• I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

  Author: Adam Sandler

• There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

  Author: Colonel Sanders

• The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

  Author: Ryne Sandberg

• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

  Author: George Sand

• I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  Author: Walter Salles

• Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

  Author: Alberto Salazar

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  Author: Carl Sagan

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

  Author: Vita Sackville-West

• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Rutherford

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