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Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!
When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.
Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.
So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Every sport, every profession, every group united by a single passion draws on a lexicon that is uniquely theirs, and theirs for a reason.
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.
We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.
You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.
I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.