Reasons For Quotes

#1. I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.

Amby Burfoot

#2. If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#3. One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

Thomas Sowell

#4. You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

Sigmund Freud

#6. I ask this.
Who gets lost with the right guidance?
Who can lead wrong that follows right?
And are there any good reasons for a
believer in Jesus to be distraught?
I'll answer.
No one.
No one.
And no.

Calvin W. Allison

#7. Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for it.

Thomas Piketty

#8. We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be.

Peter Singer

#10. The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Marcus Samuelsson

#11. It is no longer acceptable to simply assert your moral beliefs; you have to provide reasons for them, and those reasons had better be grounded in rational arguments and empirical evidence or else they will likely be ignored or rejected.

Michael Shermer

#12. We want the best possible relations with Russia, of course. But at the same time, we are very vigilant when it comes to the German-Russian relationship. The reasons for this bilateral pipeline through the Baltic Sea were purely political.

Lech Kaczynski

#13. People may feel that I am materialistic, ideal, idiot, cool, funny. Its not their perception but my projection and I always have my own reasons for my being.

Giridhar Alwar

#14. It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Gloria Steinem

#16. There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words.

Steven Erikson

#17. Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

John Prescott

#18. Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

Jon Landau

#19. Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...

Josephin Peladan

#20. As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

#21. You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

Yo-Yo Ma

#22. Your weaknesses and struggles are not reasons for him to give up on you. Instead, they're opportunities for you to show his strength in ways you simply can't on your best days.

Holley Gerth

#23. In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

Kofi Annan

#24. You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

Dick Cavett

#25. With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

#26. Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

Sydney J. Harris

#27. People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Kevin Spacey

#28. If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

Robert Breault

#29. Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.

Bernice L. McFadden

#30. It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Mary Kay Blakely

#31. Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope.

Albert Camus

#32. The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Maxine Hong Kingston

#33. How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Jane Austen

#34. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

Gilles Menage

#35. When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine - to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.

Donna Eden

#36. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#37. People are going to judge you for all kinds of reasons for the rest of your life. Because you vote one way or the other, because you go to one school or the other, because you look a certain way. It's a fact of life: you can't make everyone happy. But you can make you happy

Leah Rae Miller

#38. Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Bill Dedman

#39. One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.

J. Robert Moskin

#40. The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

Brian Koppelman

#41. Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them

Keerthi Singhe

#42. God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might

Elmore Leonard

#43. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

G.E. Moore

#44. This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

Boz Scaggs

#45. I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

#46. This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.

Ravi Zacharias

#47. Having faith in Jesus Christ and in His Atonement means relying completely on Him - trusting in His infinite power, intelligence, and love. When we have faith in Christ, we trust the Lord enough to follow His commandments - even when we do not completely understand the reasons for them.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#48. He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#49. My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Lance Loud

#50. Some of the biggest companies in the world have security that is only as good as a minimum-wage phone support worker who has the power to reset your account. And they have valid business reasons for giving them this power.

Anonymous

#51. The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

Sam Harris

#52. 'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.

Lulu

#53. He said that some people can live from birth to death and have no more thoughts in their heads about the reasons for living than a beetle. But that we were different, he and I. We needed more than a clod of dirt to make our rising up and lying down worth something.

Kathleen Kent

#54. We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#55. I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.

Vivienne Westwood

#56. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did." Bast

Patrick Rothfuss

#57. Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

Jane Silber

#58. All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

Salman Rushdie

#59. In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder ... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure ... Some killers enjoy the kill ... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

Amanda Quick

#60. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Margaret Atwood

#61. A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

J. P. Morgan

#62. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

Jeanloup Sieff

#63. People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person they hoped to marry, much less live the life they hoped to live, other people invented new dreams to replace the old ones, finding fresh reasons for discontent.

Katie Kitamura

#64. I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

Pat Benatar

#65. There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

Prince Charles

#66. The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#67. There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#68. Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

Victor J. Stenger

#69. Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it.

Seneca.

#70. Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

Giacomo Leopardi

#71. You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Steve Backley

#72. It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.

Peter Hitchens

#73. There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Alastair Campbell

#74. I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.

Samuel Johnson

#75. It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Orson Scott Card

#76. Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

#77. Robert Cialdini, author of one of my favorite books, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion, writes: "A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they

Lior Suchard

#78. Jackie laughed, although she didn't find it funny. There are other reasons for laughter.

Joseph Fink

#79. Why do you do what you do? Why do you dress the way you dress?Why do you do what you do with your time? Why do you watch what you watch on TV or at the movies or on the computer? Do you have God-glorifying reasons for all of it?

Tim Conway

#80. Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

Stephen Jay Gould

#81. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

J.D. Salinger

#82. Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Mignon McLaughlin

#83. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone De Beauvoir

#84. People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#85. People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

Napoleon Hill

#86. If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Steven Pinker

#87. Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#88. There are two reasons for drinking wine ... when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it ... prevention is better than cure.

Thomas Love Peacock

#89. We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

Troy Vincent

#90. People who kill themselves generally suffer from severe clinical depression," I said. "Their reasons for choosing suicide are not always rational. It's often a chemical imbalance that leads them to the choice.

Lisa Unger

#91. There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

Kate Dickie

#92. The reasons for their illness lie in their personal journey and are probably related to their individual purpose.

Anita Moorjani

#93. Stories are about secrets. We all have them. Secret dreams, fantasies, hopes and sometimes even desires. Occasionally a dream becomes reality and then maybe there are a million reasons for not telling anybody about it.

Rob Hopcott

#94. One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Eric Burdon

#95. There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Richard Gere

#96. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.

Rhys Hughes

#97. It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

Lakshmi Mittal

#98. First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?
Second don: State the alternative preferred,
With reasons for your choice.

A.E. Housman

#99. Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.

John Christopher