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Reason Quotes


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



"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."


"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."


"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."


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


"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."


"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."


"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."


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


"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."


"Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years."



"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."


"The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here."


"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."


"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."


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


"There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat."


"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."


"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."


"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."


"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."


"That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again."


"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."


"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."


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


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


"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."


"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."


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


"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."


"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."


"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."


"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."


"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."


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


"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."


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


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