Top 100 The Reason Quotes
#1. The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
Dean Martin
#2. The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
Macklemore
#4. We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.
James Madison
#5. And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.
Susan May Warren
#6. The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.
Rivers Cuomo
#7. The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.
Billy Graham
#8. It's not about you. It's not about me. This life that we live, the reason we're here. It's only when we see our lives through eternal eyes that we find true peace or wealth that will last. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you ... in a relationship with God.
Tamera Alexander
#9. The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It's a process, not an event.
Seth Godin
#10. The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
James D'arcy
#11. The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
Jesse Metcalfe
#12. The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.
Philip Yancey
#13. Another two-bowl morning? - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
P.C. Cast
#14. Considering myself as the reason for breaking up a friendship and marriage, I contained deep embarrassment inside.
LaQuita Cameron
#15. The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
T.C. Boyle
#16. Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.
Kevin Moffett
#17. The reason most organizing systems haven't worked for most people is that they haven't yet transformed all the stuff they're trying to organize. As long as it's still stuff, it's not controllable.
David Allen
#18. There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
Anna Russell
#19. For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
Diane Paulus
#20. Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front
Stephen King
#21. For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle.
#22. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.
Jeff Olson
#23. I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it's really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.
David Lipsky
#24. I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.
Cecelia Ahern
#25. The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Timothy Ferriss
#26. The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.
Reggie Jackson
#27. I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
Rachel Nichols
#28. I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think a lot of actors do it, is that it's always changing. You get to play so many things that it's like you've had so many different careers.
Jerry Ferrara
#29. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.
Billy Graham
#30. I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.
John Green
#31. The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor
#32. I'm doing a film called 'Black Mass' where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He's a fascinating character. It's not like anything I've done before on that level. I'm very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
Johnny Depp
#33. I need to punish her.
You need her. Just her. Nothing else.
Ignoring my mind's voice, I look at my prey. She's the reason I am the way I am.
It's all her fault.
And she's going to pay.
Belle Aurora
#34. I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
Kesha
#35. The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.
Kevin DeYoung
#36. It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.
Richelle Mead
#37. The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.
Reader's Digest Association
#38. The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.
Tony Evans
#39. I don't believe in fate ... but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in ... Maybe I'm wrong, but it's gotten me this far. It's the reason I fight, the reason I can keep going, despite everything. And it ... it led me to you.
Julie Kagawa
#40. I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
Sela Ward
#41. In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
Tim Burton
#42. Or it can be the reason we use to justify our anger and the sharp tones in our voices for the rest of our lives.
Shauna Niequist
#43. Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.
Thiruman Archunan
#44. All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them.
Natsuo Kirino
#45. I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
Paula Garces
#46. The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#48. The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.
Shailene Woodley
#49. The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as a part of it
Erwin Schrodinger
#50. The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.
James Cook
#51. And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
E. E. Cummings
#52. My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
Vera Wang
#53. Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
Joe Baca
#54. The reason they want you to fit in ... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
Seth Godin
#55. I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
Harrison Ford
#56. These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Michael Bloomberg
#57. The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
Barry Sanders
#58. In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
Paul Cullen
#59. Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence." --Bimal Shah.
Bimal Shah
#60. And then you might learn, as we did from a local, that the reason hundreds of starlings in flight will twist and turn in unison is because the ones on the outside are constantly trying to get to the inside where they feel safer. Some
Bill Bryson
#61. The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind.
Ted Shackelford
#62. Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.
Glenn Greenwald
#63. To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.
W. H. Auden
#64. To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
B.o.B
#65. The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.
Nick Harkaway
#66. I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.
Anthony Jeselnik
#67. When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.
Richard Dennis
#68. We stubbornly cling to past interpretations and old stories even when God's universal story is much better. The reason is not that we lack education and knowledge, but that we overflow with pride.
Nancy B. Winters
#69. ...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.
Teresa Mummert
#70. Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
William Jennings Bryan
#71. You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#72. I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.
Glenn Beck
#73. Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
Caleb Deschanel
#74. The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.
Rita Moreno
#75. Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.
Richard Reti
#76. I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.
Britney Spears
#77. I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.
Tim Blake Nelson
#78. The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.
Terry Goodkind
#80. We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
Ben Carson
#81. And Barron is probably right - we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like.
Holly Black
#82. The reason we have to regulate ... church schools is that ... children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.
Peter Hoagland
#83. If only I could understand
The reason for my crying
If only I could stop this fear
Of dreaming that I'm dying.
Jennifer Lynch
#84. If you're not getting through to others, the reason may not be because they "are idiots." The problem may be that you haven't figured out a simple and interesting way to communicate your messages.
Bruce Kasanoff
#85. The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.
Rose McIver
#86. The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
Jerry Brown
#87. Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error.
Nate Silver
#88. It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
Deepa Mehta
#89. I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.
Hill Harper
#90. The reason most people don't accomplish much is because they don't want much.
Jim Rohn
#91. 1 JOHN 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Anonymous
#92. Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#93. The fights I fought ... cost a lot
the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
William J. Clinton
#94. The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.
Oscar Wilde
#95. The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. It's an essentially corrupt society.
Michael Lewis
#96. I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
Bobby Bowden
#97. Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.
Schuyler Fisk
#98. One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!
Anne Frank
#99. My wife and I have five children. And the reason why we have five children is because we do notwantsix.
Bill Cosby
#100. A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.
Greta Salpeter
