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Reason Quotes


"The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me."


"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."


"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me."


"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."


"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."


"I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will."


"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."


"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."


"If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?"


"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."


"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."


"For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness."



"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."


"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."


"The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV."


"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."


"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."


"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."


"Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason."


"There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets."


"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."


"It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live."


"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."


"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."


"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."


"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."


"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."


"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."


"The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons."


"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."


"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice."


"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."


"You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it."


"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."


"The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you."


"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
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