Top 100 Reason They Quotes
#1. There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
Walter Raleigh
#2. If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.
Josh Billings
#3. There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Bryan White
#4. I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.
Tom Colicchio
#5. The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
Craig McCracken
#6. The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
Leslie Nielsen
#7. When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.
Ayn Rand
#8. People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
Viggo Mortensen
#9. There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.
Barack Obama
#11. Guys are dumb. They're stupid and the only reason they exist is because their semen keeps the planet populated.
Amy Kinzer
#12. People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
Neal Barnard
#13. See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.
Brock Lesnar
#15. I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
#16. What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
Dennis Miller
#17. I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
#18. People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#19. Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.
Tom Baker
#20. The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
Peter Bogdanovich
#21. The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it's not because of good advice, it's not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason - they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.
Tony Robbins
#22. Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.
Shirin Ebadi
#24. No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.
Susan Wiggs
#25. The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.
Clark Gable
#26. It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
Victoria Osteen
#27. Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.
Jenna Evans Welch
#28. My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
Christopher Bollen
#29. It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think
Eugene Ionesco
#30. If anyone imagines that scientists are dispassionate and impartial people, discussing theories and ideas unemotionally in the cool clear light of reason, they have been seriously misled.
Eva Jablonka
#31. It's better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.
Nicola Yoon
#32. The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
J.G. Ballard
#33. For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
Amity Gaige
#34. Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.
Carson McCullers
#35. Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.
Robert Reich
#36. I don't have much use for bishops. There's a reason they're called primates.
Mark Schweizer
#37. It sounds obvious, but many people endure working at jobs that make them miserable - the only reason they go to work is for the money. And guess what? They never make enough money to get ahead.
Wes Moss
#38. Players come to Belle Rock's casinos to have fun, find excitement, or play in a safe environment, but no matter what the reason, they all come to win. In February, we want to reward our loyal players by making the chances of winning big that much greater.
Tim Johnson
#39. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch
#40. When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.
Max Horkheimer
#41. Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
Dave Barry
#42. They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
Thomas Keller
#43. There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
Mark Twain
#44. Our brains were not designed for us to sit around contemplating what we already have. They were not designed to trigger excitement for no reason. They were designed for us to keep finding new ways to promote survival
Anonymous
#45. They were all put in my life for a reason. They became a part of my testimony for a purpose. I just have to figure out what that purposefulness is for.
K. Weikel
#46. Of course, I'm only joking," he says, studying me. "The reason they're staring is because I am extraordinarily good looking.
Penelope King
#47. I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
Christopher Meloni
#48. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
#49. I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Rihanna
#50. Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken
David Platt
#51. So for most people, the reason they don't win financially is because the fear of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#52. If you ever go to any event ever, for any reason, they will give you a tote bag. Medical conference? Tote bag. Wedding? Tote bag. Syrian refugee arriving in Canada? Maple leaf tote bag. My orthodontist gave me a tote bag. And a t-shirt. Which I put in the tote bag.
Jennifer McCartney
#53. There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz
#54. I'm just
the reason they married.
Mum says
I was a surprise.
Dad says
I was an accident.
Truth is ...
I am their mistake.
Emma Cameron
#55. The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
Art Linkletter
#56. Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#57. Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off ... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.
George Karl
#58. There are some people in the world, and the reason they're not in jail is because they've learned how to hide it.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love and that it is a civil right.
Jennifer Beals
#60. I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.
Frank Oz
#61. Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?
Kurt Vonnegut
#62. My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
Joseph Mazzello
#63. Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.
Denis Diderot
#64. The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.
Caitlin Moran
#65. Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck.
Alice Walker
#66. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.
Colm Toibin
#67. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Each blade of grass, each little bug, ant, golden bee, knows its way amazingly; being without reason, they witness to the divine mystery, they ceaselessly enact it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.
Peg Bracken
#70. The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses.
Michael Lewis
#71. These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.
Gretchen Rubin
#72. Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
Kim Hyesoon
#73. Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#74. Melissa was still deep in conversation with Toby. For no good reason, they were arguing about the very important art of making the perfect cup of tea.
Kat Green
#75. Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"
Laurie Anderson
#76. The reason they want you to fit in ... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
Seth Godin
#77. There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?
Irvine Welsh
#78. I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.
Mark Strong
#79. When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.
Tanya Tucker
#80. [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
Gloria Steinem
#81. Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
Eric Holder
#82. People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me ... If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.
Oliver North
#83. Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.
Fred Hampton
#84. I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.
Alan Dale
#85. For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.
Matt Bomer
#86. I don't think people should do anything to be popular. But maybe within reason they can step out of their comfort zones and do things to be more 'accessible'. Like taking drugs or drinking heavily to be cool.
Lindsay Lohan
#87. It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
Adam Davidson
#88. If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
Stephen Colbert
#89. Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Jeffrey Zaslow
#90. Guilt is the reason they put articles in Playboy.
Dennis Miller
#91. They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.
Dominic Smith
#92. Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger. For some reason they had decided not to beat me.
Elizabeth Kostova
#93. The evening makes me think Facebook is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it helps us keep track of people with whom we otherwise would have fallen out of touch. But sometimes relationships fade for a reason. They're better left a memory.
Rachel Bertsche
#94. I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.
John Engler
#95. Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.
Dave Barry
#96. When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
Desiree Rogers
#97. The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'
Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad.
Caitlin Moran
#99. Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are ...
Barbara Coloroso
#100. People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.
Shawn Doyle
