Top 100 The Only Reason Quotes
#1. The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. They got their happy ending. That's the only reason why I can make myself walk away, make myself say goodbye to my girls, even though it kills me that I'm not the reason behind their smiles. And I will never be.
Mia Asher
#4. The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.
Stephen Rodrick
#5. The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do.
Lee Clow
#6. It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
Joseph Goebbels
#7. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.
Amanda Marcotte
#8. The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.
Mark McGwire
#9. The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. I have learned compassion and to show love for everyone, because of what I have been through. I have also found out how strong I can be, both with God and for him. God lives inside of me and that's the only reason I am still here today.
Stephanie Carpenter
#11. the only reason to kick a man like him out of bed would be to fuck him on the floor.
K. Bromberg
#12. From the beginning of a Christian's life to the end, the only reason he does not perish is because "the Lord was there." When
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. The only reason guys wanna play pool with girls is to see you leaning over the table, looking sexy. Not that I wouldn't enjoy that ... immensely. - Chris
Jennifer Comeaux
#14. The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.
Rick Warren
#15. He leans forward slightly, lips pulling back against his even, white teeth. It's so aggressive and animalistic I expect to see fangs. "I am your rightful king, Silver-born for centuries," he replies, seething. "The only reason you're still breathing is because I can't burn the oxygen from this room.
Victoria Aveyard
#16. The only reason cavemen painted on walls was they didn't have note cards.
Jon Acuff
#17. His reply came cold and quick: "Sometimes I think that's the only reason you ever talked to me." She opened her eyes. "What?" "Everybody knows." Neal's chin was practically touching his chest - that's how not he was looking at her.
Rainbow Rowell
#18. The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
Larry Wall
#19. When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.
Joss Stone
#21. Don't be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he's still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he's choosing, every day, not to be with you.
Greg Behrendt
#22. The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
Donald Glover
#23. Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth.
Holly Black
#25. The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who laboured to produce it.
Paulo Coelho
#26. You want to know if that's the only reason I called, Vivian? he asked finally, his voice octaves and octaves lower than Daytime Clark. Raspy, gruff, rough-and-tumble.
Alice Clayton
#27. I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
Edward Abbey
#28. And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.
Anonymous
#29. When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
L. Ron Hubbard
#30. The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.
Bauvard
#31. The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!
Leonard Ravenhill
#32. The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew
#33. Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.
Leila Summers
#34. 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
#35. We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.
Matt Chandler
#36. It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.
Gary Paulsen
#37. Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
Ray Bradbury
#38. The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.
Sparky Anderson
#39. The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
#40. The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
Rhonda Byrne
#41. The only reason i Fall in love with cigarette.each one take 2 minutes of my life and i love this.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#42. The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.
Brian Wilson
#43. Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.
J.R. Ward
#44. Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.
SZA
#45. The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando
#46. The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
Miles Davis
#47. The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap.
Lars Anderson
#48. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...
J.K. Rowling
#49. The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
Anthony J. Carson
#50. If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster.
Cora Reilly
#51. The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.
Rob Liano
#52. The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.
Clark Gable
#53. For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
Flea
#54. The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.
Theophile Gautier
#55. Life, Vin said. You said that the only reason to create something was so that you could destroy it.
Brandon Sanderson
#56. The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
Clara Hughes
#57. The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
Jaggi Vasudev
#58. The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.
Matt Taibbi
#59. Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born. Savitri was astonished ...
Deepak Chopra
#60. Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.
Lenny Bruce
#61. I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.
Andrew Dominik
#62. Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
Dennis Lehane
#63. Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind.
Anna Kendrick
#64. The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
R.C. Sproul
#65. The only reason for security is that our salvation is in God's hand. Our
John Calvin
#66. I brought you here didn't I?
Why so you can chain me up in your basement.
Don't give me ideas, Monroe or you'll never make it out of here. The only reason I haven't chained you in my basement is because I know you'll be missed.
B.B. Reid
#67. Because it's true. Isn't that the only reason to ever say anything?
A.S. King
#68. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
Seth MacFarlane
#69. Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
Eric Massa
#70. The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.
Roger Rosenblatt
#71. The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.
Tom DeLonge
#72. Where can you taste the joy of obeying unless He bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?
C.S. Lewis
#73. The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
Joaquin Phoenix
#74. The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
John Krasinski
#75. The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.
Greg Giraldo
#76. Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
William Penn
#77. 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
#78. No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge
Mike Tyson
#79. I thought that because my father was military, I was, too ... I'd treated my life there ... like a tour of duty, and ... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up.
Leah Stewart
#80. I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.
Aleksandar Hemon
#81. The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
Laozi
#82. Love, Laurel, that's the only reason to get married. For love.
Kate Morton
#83. The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got.
Neal Stephenson
#84. I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
#85. The only reason we've held them off this long is because we burned the library." "The library?
Laini Taylor
#86. I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
M.I.A.
#87. Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.
Maureen Johnson
#88. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain
#89. The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#90. I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
Stephen Daldry
#91. I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
John Burnside
#92. When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to be a disciple of Christ is because they fail to realize just how well loved they are by him. How could you not want to be with someone who loves you well?
Sandra M. Michelle
#93. 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.
Salma Hayek
#94. The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.
Jack Bauer
#95. I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
Jesse Eisenberg
#96. And it might be sitting in non-traceable off-shore bank accounts. Because we might've stolen all his money while we were at it. Serves him right since the only reason he got caught is because he tried to steal yours. Paybacks are always a bitch.
J.A. Huss
#98. The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'
Larry The Cable Guy
#99. What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.
Ludwig Von Mises
#100. The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
Earl Warren
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