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Reason Quotes


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


"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."


"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."


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


"For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print."


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


"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."


"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."


"You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way."


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


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


"The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless."


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


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


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


"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."


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


"I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of."


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



"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."


"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."


"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."


"It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground."


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