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Reason Quotes


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


"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."


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


"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."



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


"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."


"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."



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


"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."


"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."


"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."


"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."


"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"



"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."


"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."


"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."


"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."


"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."


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


"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."


"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."


"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."


"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."



"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."


"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."


"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."


"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."


"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."


"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."


"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."


"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."


"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."


"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."


"The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio."


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



"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."


"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
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