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.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

There’s a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don’t support Republicans is because they don’t trust the GOP establishment.

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities

There are very good reasons why neither doctors nor detectives should work on cases too close to home. It warps perspective.

The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

I’m always open to new ideas, within reason

Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man’s nature, because it is against man’s right reason.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground

And, what is worse, the reader often shares the writer’s prejudices, and is far too well pleased with his conclusions to examine either his premises or his reasoning. Stand on a barrel in the streets of Bagdad, and say in a loud voice, ‘Twice two is four, and ginger is hot in the mouth, therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God’, and your logic will probably escape criticism; or, if anyone should by chance criticise it, you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog.

The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning, is believed to be, that it was not suspected that any such charge would ever take place; and it appears that no such charge did take place, during the early period of the Constitution, when the meaning of its authors could be best ascertained, nor until many of the contemporary lights had in the lapse of time been extinguished. How often does it happen, that a notoriety of intention diminishes the caution against its being misunderstood or doubted!

If you don’t know me then I would like to tell you that I am a kind of man who always believes in the instinct rather than in the reasons.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.

It’s called show business for a reason.

To man, alone among the animals, has been given the awful privilege of reason. Man, with his brain, can penetrate the intoxicating show of things and look upon the universe brazen with indifference toward him and his dreams.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

I had been able to break the curse myself. I’d had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we’re asses.

But I am I, and I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. If I don’t like a thing, I don’t like it, that’s all; and there is no reason under the sun why I should ape a liking for it just because the majority of my fellow-creatures like it, or make believe they like it. I can’t follow the fashions in the things I like or dislike.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough

Falling out of the sky was one thing, but doing so for unknown reasons was quite unacceptable. Having

There is no reason not to be happy at Chelsea.

We met for a reason either you’re a lesson or a blessing.

My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

We seek festivals for two reasons – either to create buzz because it is a small film or to find unexplored markets outside India

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

The reason I always loved ‘The Omen’ so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that’s very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

I support selecting as many candidates as early as possible for lots of reasons. First of all I think it is important that every voter – regardless of where they live in the country – should have the opportunity to vote Conservative should they wish

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that’s come about for a whole variety of reasons

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

But if we can manage it so people don’t have things forced on them that they don’t want, I think there’s every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we’re stuck in today.

One of the reasons I wouldn’t sleep with a man is because I wouldn’t feel equal, both in that I feel more spiritually advanced than men, and because society places men over women. How do you feel equal when you’re with a man?

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans – anything except reason

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone

Time makes more converts than reason

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients – or their lack – and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide–the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

At one point Deepak said that when you’re happy for a particular reason, you’re still in misery—because that reason can be taken from you tomorrow.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must approve more of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,

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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason, to be a pawn without a will of its own; nor is it merely wishful thinking that its quest for independence and originality should become a Western aspiration.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world

I’ve always given everything for every team I’ve played for so that the ordinary fans, the people in the stadium, could identify with me. I owe a lot to the fans of Roma, Fiorentina and Argentina. They were the reason I played, my inspiration. I always worked hard to improve my game, to prove to myself that I could be one of the best for as long as possible. To be honest, I couldn’t care less what the others think.

I saw a big challenge in Qatar and that was the main reason behind opting for this offer. I would like to give my best and score as many goals as possible for my new team.

I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.

It’s like that Simpsons joke – they’re filming a cow in a movie and they go, ‘OK, we’ll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow’, and it’s like, ‘Why don’t you just use a cow?’. For some reason that is novel – like, ‘Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

there’s reason to believe neither account reflects the facts. But the authors of both gospels—whoever those authors really were—believed Jesus was the Savior, so He must’ve been born in Bethlehem, as the Old Testament predicts.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

A lot of ones I’ve really chased and wanted – as a comic, I’ve always wanted to do a ‘Mock The Week’ – it’s always discussed, but for whatever reason it doesn’t happen.

It is the little things that get me angry. The great traumas are easier: you can always work your way through to reason.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

All translations are made up” opined Vikram, “Languages are different for a reason. You can’t move ideas between them without losing something

There was every reason to believe I was heading for trouble, that I’d pushed my luck a bit far.

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

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don’t feel they would help anybody.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

As world events develop, prophecy becomes more and more exciting…This writer doesn’t believe that we have prophets today who are getting direct revelations from God, but we do have prophets today who are being given special insight into the prophetic word. God is opening the book of the prophets to many men. This is one reason you will find on Christian bookshelves an increasing number of books on the subject of Bible prophecy.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

I don’t believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, “At least I’m living; at least I’m doing something. I’m making some contribution.” It’s just psychological.

Don’t we look good together? There’s a reason why they watch all night long

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you’re happy, don’t. Why spoil it? You’re probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you’d just spoil it to know it.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Don’t let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

Reason speaks and feeling bites.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn’t.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.