Give Me One Reason Quotes

#1. Ruby, give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I'm not your parents. I'm not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.'
'Hunger.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

Rosie O'Donnell

#5. Complexity is not a good enough reason to give up on any idea.

Gagan Jain

#6. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

Henry Rollins

#7. You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up.

Teresa Mummert

#8. People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Erin Morgenstern

#9. Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!

Aurelien Budynek

#10. He dared me to give him a reason to kill someone if the time came that he called me Virginia and it no longer pertained to me.
Loftis, Quinn (2011-11-18). Blood Rites: Book 2 Grey Wolves Series (The Grey Wolves Series) (p. 116). Kindle Edition.

Quinn Loftis

#11. Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore De Balzac

#12. People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Paulo Coelho

#13. What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

Paul David Tripp

#14. People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

Mac Miller

#15. The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Zig Ziglar

#16. I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Dr. Dre

#17. Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

Ronnie Shakes

#18. Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.

Denzel Washington

#20. The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in need.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#21. Today is a BRAND NEW day - a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married.
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil? With braces?

Bret Easton Ellis

#23. The vampires took everything from me, but I'm looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give me back a reason to live, who can heal my gaping hole of sorrow.

J.A. London

#24. I woan let you go back to that boy
not until you give me one bec doux." A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair.
"What are you doing?" I murmured.
"Souvenir." He put it in his pocket, and for some reason that struck me as the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.

Kresley Cole

#25. Brynne was naturally submissive to me. She accepted what I wanted to give her - the Dom in me had found my muse, and it was just one more reason we were perfect together.

Raine Miller

#26. A husband speaks to his wife: "I don't want to go to church Sunday." "Honey, you have to go." "Give me one good reason why I have to go." "You are the pastor!

Dr. James Wilkins

#27. You can give me a thousand reasons why not to do something, but give me one good reason why, and I'll do it.

Lorraine Holloway-White

#28. My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.

Laurie Graham

#29. If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, 'Because it was he; because it was I.' There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.

Gabrielle Zevin

#31. No?" She looked at him incredulously. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Give me a one good fucking reason not to kill you.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#33. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.
Isabelle Lightwood

Cassandra Clare

#34. It was twelve years ago. Can you give me one good reason why we should dredge all of that up tonight?"
"I can," Kingsley said. "Because you fucked a nun.

Tiffany Reisz

#35. Why not?" she asks petulantly. "Give me one good reason we shouldn't." "Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil?" I tell her. "I don't know." "Yes?" she says. "And?" "With braces?" I finish, shrugging.

Bret Easton Ellis

#36. My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

Kajol

#37. God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Stephen Hawking

#38. And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Adam Weishaupt

#39. I've always wanted not to give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.

Allie Brosh

#40. Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Rob Bell

#41. After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

John Biddle

#42. My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

Graydon Carter

#43. With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

#44. Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#45. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.

John N. Gray

#46. To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Eli Broad

#47. The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

Frans De Waal

#48. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.

Anne Frank

#49. Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#50. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Joan Didion

#51. I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

Donald Miller

#52. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Virginia Woolf

#53. We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

Lucy Powell

#54. If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Ayn Rand

#55. Yet to give over one's honor for that reason was so easy, wasn't it? To excuse the fall of virtue by invoking all-powerful ka.

Stephen King

#56. I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jenny Agutter

#57. The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you'd still be doing it. You've got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

Warren Buffett

#58. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Chuck Feeney

#59. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".

Sarah Vowell

#60. I was your man, you were halfway around the world from me, honey, I'd fucking phone you ... If you told me you needed a timeout, first, I wouldn't fuckin' let you have one. Second, I wouldn't give you reason to fuckin' want one. And last, you took off anyway, I'd fuckin' phone.

Kristen Ashley

#61. no one had been able to give him a reason why people who had excellent reasons to suppose they would destroy themselves if they did a certain thing chose to do that thing anyway.

Octavia E. Butler

#62. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

G.K. Chesterton

#63. Even when life hurts, I see no reason to give up. All the mistakes makes me angry, and my anger refuses to lose.

Tricia Furtado

#64. You're going to need a better reason this time. A real reason. And just to be clear, I don't give a fuck what it is because I am not going to let you go. Period.

Claire Contreras

#65. Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the so-called 'living,' fear for the simple reason that we have not passed through them.

Tom Robbins

#66. 9. Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

San Juan De La Cruz

#67. Failure isn't a reason to give up. It's the price of progress. We learn from it, we grow from it, we become better for it. We're going to do amazing things, you and I. We will change the world.

Jon Skovron

#68. I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.

Mark Dacascos