Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Cavuto

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

Mitt Romney

There are a lot of reasons not to elect me.

R. D. Laing

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

Nelson Mandela

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Neil Young

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

Niccolo Machiavelli

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Jodi Picoult

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

Jodi Picoult

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

Kristen Stewart

Things don't happen for no reason.

Margaret Atwood

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

Marcel Duchamp

Humor is the only reason to live.

Margaret Deland

Convictions do not imply reasons.

Lyman Abbott

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Mary Baker Eddy

Reason is the most active human faculty.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

Noam Chomsky

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Matt Drudge

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

John Green

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

P. J. O'Rourke

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

Mary Wollstonecraft

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

Marion Ross

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

Michel de Montaigne

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

Michel de Montaigne

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Mark Levin

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

Christopher Hitchens

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Milan Kundera

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

Jose Bergamin

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

Kevin Rudd

In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].

James Thurber

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Ellen DeGeneres

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.