My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Thomas Jefferson
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
Thomas Jefferson
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
John Lennon
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
Oprah Winfrey
But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
Norton Juster
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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.
Galileo Galilei
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
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.
Ernest Hemingway
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s.
Steve Allen
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.
Stephen Hawking
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.
Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Benjamin Franklin
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Pythagoras
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
Wayne Dyer
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Leo Tolstoy
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
Albert Camus
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. Chesterton
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William R. Alger
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Ludwig van Beethoven
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
Alexander Hamilton
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
Alexander Hamilton
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham J. Heschel
We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
Abraham Cowley
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter.
Jean Paul Richter
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell
The reason they have these jobs is because other people don't want to do the jobs they do.
Roberto Flores
There's no reason why you couldn't add eighth grade, too, if the community supports it.
Bill Barrett
Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.
Heather Hedrick
Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
Jimmy Fallon
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
I think it is important to realize that the City/Agency obligation to pay severance could arise even days after the contract commences if Mr. Hanson's employment terminates for any reason.
Charles Green
I just want to know what happened that day that my father passed away. I want to know the reason why, ... I'm rehashing the nightmare all over again.
Jose Rivera
I see no reason why the party will not rally behind that timeline.
Gabriel Claudio
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, are forms of economic stimulus. Most of the replacement comes out of insurance-instead of out of normal cash flows. That's the reason that any disaster gives you a silver lining of economic recovery.
Kevin Landis
One reason coral is so pleasing is that it's a nice bridge between orange and red. It's a softer alternative for people who appreciate the energy of vivid colors.
Dixon Bartlett
My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.
Lord Harewood
He brings a whole different level of intensity to the game. And he expects that from his catcher. He's a power pitcher and he's as good as he is for a reason, because of that intensity.
Kelly Stinnett
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
This season is the most we've ever thrown the ball, but they're the reason why.
James Reynolds
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
Brand Blanshard
We know that the nature of the industry is more litigious. There's no reason we'd ever go out on a limb on one particular transaction than any other one.
Chad Banken
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Saint John Chrysostom
The main reason for the festival has little to do with marijuana itself. It's more about offering an awesome festival for students. It's part entertainment, but it's also about social justice. You may not know it's about marijuana unless you see some of the propaganda around at the booths.
Spencer Edelman
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell
There is no compelling reason for a split since large institutional investors have the capital to buy shares regardless of the price.
David Garrity
It?s been a tough site for whatever reason.
John Doughty
We can't be happy with just going down there. There's no reason we can't win the thing.
Dante Kerney
We sought them out. They are up-and-coming, but the majority of the reason is because of Matt Doherty. It's an interesting story. People want to know how he's doing.
Jim Gorman
He has a lot of history with area. It shows his commitment, and I'm sure it's part of the reason he is so committed.
David Frank
Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.
Mark Richardson
For some reason, we play better on the road. Some of our wins are ugly, but we don't care.
Joel Thompson
Breaking into a professors office to steal papers and tests is an example of a reason why a student would be expelled.
Fran Cohen
If we play powerful and we play together, there's no reason we can't win the rest (of the games).
Joe Paopao
(Zelda) sort of accused him that the reason he was going out there was to drink and carouse.
Michael Mccreedy
The reason Martin studied Japanese is because orchestra members teased him that he was illiterate in seven languages. He knew a little bit of French; he knew a little bit of Russian; he knew a little bit of Italian, but none well at all. They teased him, so he studied Japanese, because it was the hardest language.
Carrie Smith
The reason is we didn't have the dedicated funds for that.
Marion Oettinger
I think the reason for that is that Gov. Warner, to a large extent, has branded the Democratic Party as the party of responsible stewardship, both financially and legislatively.
Brian J. Moran
The reason it`s a 3-4 group is because they`re very deep at linebacker, with a number of those linebackers having the ability to pass rush, ... So you have a great dynamic in a fourth or fifth pass rusher when you have those four linebackers on the field.
Billy Davis
I knew he was going to get jail time on the back end in New York. The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation was to pay back the victims.
Caroline Shepherd
They were picked to win the division for good reason. They know how to win.
Henry Dickerson
We are actively seeking to prevent these kind of things from falling into the hands of people who have no legitimate reason for owning them. It is against the law to own or sell them. We will investigate the information passed to us by the Manchester Evening News.
Dave Jones
There is no reason this room shouldn't be filled with people tonight.
Sen. Roosevelt David
It feels amazing. The reason we won is because our team has more heart than anyone. We train hard.
Jonathan Horton
That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. There's no reason why a much bigger earthquake couldn't happen there.
Martin Chapman
We have to get our focus back. After a letdown like this you're searching for a reason why. We tied with Bluefield during our first game. It's a great credit to his kids that they have got to this level.
Steve Hudson
The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.
James Touchton
If I am a GSE supporter up on Capitol Hill, I don't see any reason to change my view of the world. This does not scare me.
Brian Gardner
John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance, and so do his allies.
David Wade
They simply need to state the reason, if it's creating some kind of hardship for the person.
Andrew Walton
There's always a fear of the unknown as to what liabilities the state might inherit for whatever reason.
David Small
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Sydney Smith
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
Joichi Ito
Andy Chaney was a big reason we got that run in the first half with those threes.
Randy Lambert
Surveys with kids have shown that the reason they don't use libraries is because they don't have any space.
Laura Holtslander
And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.
Mark Helprin
The paramount reason we're excited is multicasting.
David Field
Connecticut was the state that we decided had the best program to really suit our needs. I think the main reason was because ... it's a therapeutic program.
Ron Holvey
I would imagine all the teams in (the) tournament are coming down to get their first games in and coming to play on quality fields. All the teams competing should be in the same boat. Nobody's got 15 games under their belt. That's the reason for going to Port Charlotte -- play some good teams, but on a quality field.
Carl Tebon
For whatever reason, we can't put two halves together, ... We dug ourselves a hole in the first half and came back in the second half a completely different team.
Sheryl Swoopes
That way you can find out where you are at in the picture, what you need, any problems you'd encounter. The No. 1 reason people get turned down for a loan is credit issues.
Laurie Peterson
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and I believe that I didn't come down with a crippling case of mono that forced me to bring my life to a complete halt just because The Universe hit a two-outer on the River to take me down.
Wil Wheaton
We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.
John Berryman
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''.
John Tillotson
You try not to make mistakes. They traded for you for a reason, but you're thinking I don't want to look bad, don't want to make a mistake, in the beginning with a new team. You feel the atmosphere, guys are looking at you.
Jaroslav Spacek
It's another reason why I'm confident we'll win back share.
Anand Chandrasekher
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
I wish you would ask the government what the reason was.
Ashraf Nubani
Yesterday's report showed draws across the board and for some reason it didn't take.
Peter Beutel
I get the feeling they may have regretted that exit and they've probably been looking for a good reason to get back in with an eye on sector consolidation.
Sheila Garrard
For some reason it seems so difficult to build a plan, and then work the plan.
Ann Marshall
There is no reason why he cannot go on and better his best ever goals tally.
Chris Kamara
We do not have any reason to believe there are inaccuracies but we've agreed to make sure our data matches their data.
Marc Short
There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. There is nothing here.
Warren Riley
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
Anna Quindlen
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry
Simply put, there is no reason to buy shares aggressively at this point.
Alvin Teng
We incorporated in '97 and started working it really heavy in 2000, ... The main reason for our growth is our commitment to leading commercial technology and integrating that into the federal space.
David Phelps
There's no technological reason we won't see the same level of attacks as we've seen with desktop and laptop computers.
Ollie Whitehouse
I think things happen for a reason. Instead of fighting and being disappointed, now I'm free to do what I really want to do.
Sen Deanna Hanna
Our goal is going up, keep climbing. We want to be at the top of the conference, the top of our division. There's no reason why we can't.
Henrik Tallinder
If Thailand can attract 12 to 13 million foreign tourists, I don't see any reason why the Philippines cannot.
Jesus Felipe
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
James Randolph Adams
The basic reason is that our living standard and health consciousness are different. We are not equipped mentally and physically to rigorously enforce compliance and safety standards.
Auwalu Haruna
Part of the reason you get this contrast between personal conditions and perceptions of the national economy is because of incredible weak leadership on the national level. I don't think the disconnect would be as large as it is if people felt we had a national leadership that understands the challenges and has a coherent set of policies to address them.
Fred Carstensen
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them, ... There is no reason to go backwards in redesigning the city.
Paul Hawken
The almost certain reason for increased tuition across the board is because of the lack of funding. Health costs are depleting budgeted monies for other programs within the state of Ohio.
Rod Hissong
If you have depression and chronic pain, it's important to figure out what came first. Chronic pain sufferers often get a stigma if we can't find a structural reason for the pain.
Verle Valentine
It's time we all came home. I mean there's no reason for us to be over there anymore. I think the mission is complete and I think what we set out to do is been done, people have suffered enough.
Demetrius Williams
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
Louis Aragon
He did not lie. The only reason he said what was on those tapes is he was pressured to do so. He would embellish because it got to a point he would do and say whatever the FBI wanted him to do and say.
Johnny Griffin
There's no reason to believe it's anything other than a missing person/runaway at this time.
Paul Bishop
It's hard to not be against terrorism, but for some reason, coming out against it is difficult for some on this campus.
Jillian Bandes
Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.
Thomas Erskine
I don't see a compelling reason to build there.
Xavier Chong
9/11 was an incredible day for all of us. It impacted us tremendously but for Stephen it was part of the reason he became a firefighter and joined the National Guard.
Stephen Tschiderer
We are hoping that this campaign will give smokers an excellent reason to quit smoking - to protect their families, friends and colleagues.
Caroline Flint
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
Part of the reason is to build the brand of Music City and to have it have a worldwide reputation that June in Music City is a smorgasbord of stuff.
John Styll
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