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Reason Quotes


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


"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice."


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."


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



"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."


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


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


"The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing."


"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."


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


"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera."


"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."



"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."


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


"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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