Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.
I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
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.
There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.
The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.