Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter D. Mitchell

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

Peter De Vries

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Penn Jillette

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Paulo Coelho

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

Marquis De Custine

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

George H. W. Bush

You could tell I'm upbeat and I've got reason to be,

Jonathan Haidt

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

John Barrowman

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Jim Rohn

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Elliot Perlman

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

John Irving

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

John Dewey

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

John Berryman

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

James Thurber

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

James Madison

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

Joe Pantoliano

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

Lynda Barry

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

Louis Aragon

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Gavin Rossdale

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?

Maggie Stiefvater

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Henry James

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Haruki Murakami

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

John Dryden

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

John Dryden

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

John Mayer

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

John Malkovich

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

because there's never been a reason not to keep doing it.

Henry Miller

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Henri Bergson

One can always reason with reason.

Galileo Galilei

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Eoin Colfer

That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.