Top 100 The Reason Why Quotes
#1. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
#2. The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Gertrude Stein
#3. The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.
Eric Thomas
#4. It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
Steven Van Zandt
#5. the reason why we live is the reason we die
Mariam
#6. Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Jeff Smith
#7. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
#8. The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.
Ernst Zundel
#9. Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.
Joe Casey
#10. The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
#11. The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
Barbara Kruger
#12. My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Lenny Kravitz
#13. The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is ... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Marco Rubio
#14. The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
Marcel Proust
#15. It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.
Tom Green
#16. The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.
Luis Coronel
#17. What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it's not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.
J. Budziszewski
#18. I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
Zakk Wylde
#19. This is the reason why atheists protest the "God" gene and religious will hate and
protest religion as a virus. They were blindfolded at an early age, and their psychological issues were
the blindfold. The facts are often used as weapons rather than information to convey truth.
Leviak B. Kelly
#20. The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
Romeo Dallaire
#21. The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
Edith Sitwell
#22. The reason why Sun Tzu at the head of 30,000 men beat Ch'u with 200,000 is that the latter were undisciplined." Teng
Sun Tzu
#23. We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.
Michael Moore
#24. The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
Brigid Schulte
#26. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
#27. The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.
Tupac Shakur
#28. Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#29. I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.
Bertie Carvel
#30. Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you.
Jeffree Star
#31. I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
Sunday Adelaja
#32. The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.
Jenny McCarthy
#33. The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Peter H. Reynolds
#34. Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white ... to highlight that contrast.
Leonard Nimoy
#35. The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#36. Loneliness is simply the felt experience of our "Obediential Potency." In our loneliness, "in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable,"18 we experience our nature, learn the reason why God had made us, and are pushed out of ourselves in order to move toward that end.
Ronald Rolheiser
#37. Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.
Robert Bartram
#39. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#41. A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
Bruno Rossi
#42. The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.
David J. Lieberman
#43. One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.
Eleanor Smeal
#44. I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
Gioconda Belli
#45. What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#46. I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.
Chris Sharma
#47. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Richard Von Weizsaecker
#48. I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Carl Jung
#49. A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses
vanishing away of things
are among the teachings of this world of shadows.
Orville Dewey
#50. Part of the reason why I want to write these books is to make everybody realize that we're all fantastic.
Sara Alexi in interview with Dario Ciriello
Sara Alexi
#51. Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
Lionel Shriver
#52. A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.
Marjorie Garber
#53. The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
Wyclef Jean
#54. Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. My life would not be where I'm at without Jesus. He is the savior of my life, and he is the reason why I live, and why I breathe. If anybody wants to be blessed, you have to trust God. You have to live according to his standards.
Donovin Darius
#56. The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
H.P. Lovecraft
#57. When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at the same time. But you know, it's something that we're grateful and that's the reason why our show's continued to succeed.
Hayden Panettiere
#58. The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.
Michael Gove
#59. The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.
Karen Kingston
#60. And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen Hawker
#61. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?
Michael Morpurgo
#62. This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur - who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving - all give us an advantage.
Yossi Vardi
#63. There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'
Luke Scott
#65. My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.
Hiromi
#66. The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.
Paulo Coelho
#67. We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.
George W. Bush
#68. And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.
Drake
#69. The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
#70. You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.
Kim Dotcom
#71. When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.
Henry Ian Cusick
#72. The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.
Heather Chapple
#73. The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
#74. The solution to Iraq
an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself
is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.
George W. Bush
#75. Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.
Stefan Bachmann
#76. I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.
Stromae
#77. One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.
Matt Ross
#78. It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.
Emun Elliott
#79. The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#81. My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
Nate Ruess
#82. The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.
Jeanette Winterson
#83. I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.
Carlos Mencia
#84. I like your mom," Adam said as they watched her walk away.
"She's a saint."
"Jake," his father called.
"And that's the reason why," Jake murmured.
Sarah Addison Allen
#85. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
Arthur Adamov
#86. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
George Clooney
#87. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
John Green
#88. The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.
Ismail Haniyeh
#89. I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
Matt Groening
#90. The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.
Wynton Marsalis
#91. I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.
Erika M. Anderson
#92. we shall find that the reason why we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his power.
John Calvin
#93. Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.
Gordon T. Smith
#94. The reason why you left in the first place will always be there, so then why do you come back whilst you know that that reason didn't go anywhere?
Angel Phetheni
#95. The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
Clayton Christensen
#96. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
A.A. Milne
#97. The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer ...
Bruce Dern
#99. I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's nobody stood there.
No prince to carry me off to the sunset ...
The reason why of course,
I don't look like his princess,
I look like his horse.
Rae Earl
#100. It's beyond your consciousness that your soul lingers with the person you love and hence your mood will affect the one you love. This is the reason why you sometimes sense your mood changing mysteriously with no reason.
Udai Yadla