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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."



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


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


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


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


"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."


"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."



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


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


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


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


"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."



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


"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."


"That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it."



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


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



"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played."


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


"They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there."


"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."


"I think the reason I am important is that I know everything."



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


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



"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."


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


"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera."


"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."


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


"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."



"There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices."


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



"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."


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