There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

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