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In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report [terrorists attacks].They have their reasons, and you understand that.
The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.
God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.
And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.
I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.
(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.
Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.
The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.
That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.
I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.
For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.
The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.