Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edward Weston

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

Henry James

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Jonathan Raymond

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Oliver Stone

Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.

Mark Ruffalo

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Theodore Roethke

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

The engineering is done, and it went well. But the reason we're doing this is for the science, and it's just beginning.

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.

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.

Linda Ronstadt

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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?