You Can Reason Quotes

#1. The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

Steven Van Zandt

#2. It doesn't matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will forever remain stuck in the Stone Age.

Bruce Schneier

#3. You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

#4. Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Ann Coulter

#5. You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep ...

Louis Tomlinson

#6. The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

Michael Redhill

#7. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis

#8. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.

Dan Groat

#9. I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Ron Ben-Israel

#10. To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Eli Broad

#11. No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of ... of abstractions.

Albert Camus

#12. You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Gloria Steinem

#13. There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

Roger Ebert

#14. Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

John Landis

#16. Give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Rob Bell

#18. A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.

Agatha Christie

#19. You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

May Sarton

#20. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

Howard G. Hendricks

#23. One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.

Quentin Tarantino

#24. But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

Walter Salles

#25. Well, the only reason we're friends is because you can rock a tweed suit," she informed, tone mock serious. "So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.

Laura Kreitzer

#26. The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you'd still be doing it. You've got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

Warren Buffett

#27. Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

Katy Perry

#28. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Chuck Feeney

#29. Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

#30. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!

O.E. Rolvaag

#31. Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.

Jesse Eisenberg

#32. I want to fuck you Katherine, but first I'm going to redden your ass," he groans, pinning me to the wall. "Can you think of a reason that I shouldn't?

Lainie Suzanne

#33. I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

T.K. Chapin

#34. The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

Dan Gilroy

#35. The only reason you can't write is because you don't.

A.A. Patawaran

#36. Nd the reason is is if you put a backdoor in, hackers can presumably get a hold of that backdoor as well and break it open. So you make systems less secure for everyone if you do that.

Rod Beckstrom

#37. For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

Joshua Bell

#38. My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.

Gin Wigmore

#39. He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.

Richard M. Schulze

#40. We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

George W. Bush

#41. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with you, pup." King confessed. "You make me fucking crazy and I feel shit that I can't--" He paused. "Prison fucked me up, made me rethink things, but you're managed to fuck me up more than prison ever did. For some reason, I want you around.

T.M. Frazier

#42. There is no reason why one should believe you should leave out politicians in cricket or any sport for that matter. There are ways and means in which government can assist in the management and development of players.

Roosevelt Skerrit

#43. Everything you know and can do, is for a reason and at some point your whole life will make sense.

E.L. Randolph

#44. Love ... " she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word because it means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand.

Leo Tolstoy

#45. She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something?

Julie James

#46. Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Benjamin Carson

#47. You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

P. J. O'Rourke

#48. The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

Lauren Oliver

#49. One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

Marco Arment

#50. The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

Andre Breton

#51. Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.

Laetitia Casta

#52. The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.

Kevin Systrom

#53. I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

Chico Hamilton

#54. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Bjorn Borg

#55. The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

Phyllis Diller

#56. I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason.

Patricia C. Wrede

#57. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

Saul Williams

#58. I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

Aaron Patzer

#59. If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Natsuki Takaya

#60. Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

John Mason Brown

#61. Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

Jodi Picoult

#62. There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

Robin Roberts

#63. I think that every job that you can save is important. Every job that you can create is very important and it should not be the number one reason why we invest in infrastructure to create jobs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#64. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

Chris Pine

#65. Religion's just politics with higher stakes, Tak. You know that, you saw it in action on Sharya. No reason these people can't do the same when it comes to the crunch. These people are sheep. They'll do whatever their holy men tell them.

Richard K. Morgan

#66. I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?

Method Man

#67. I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

Chris Frantz

#68. People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

Haruki Murakami

#69. You broke up with me, and I spend one night with one guy who turns out to be the reason I'm even here, in domestic BLISS with your grouchy ass, and you can't spare an evening for dinner? You are a dick.

Tere Michaels

#70. The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Steve Earle

#71. God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

Joel Osteen

#72. Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?
There won't be any reason to return then.
All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you.

Sanhita Baruah

#73. Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

Ann Demeulemeester

#74. The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Adam Sandler

#75. The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in need.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#76. Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

Mike Svob

#77. Not all murder is evil ...
In the right time, the right place, for the right reason
it can be a blessing more profound than any you can imagine

J. Michael Straczynski

#78. This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul' ... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell,

Alice Hoffman

#79. As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

K.d. Lang

#80. One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#81. They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster.

Skyla Madi

#82. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Plotinus

#83. If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bill Nye

#84. Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the gravest of times. Hope is a precious life force within us.

Christopher Hawke

#85. Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today I can die for something - my way, my choice.

Jack Bauer

#86. Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Maya Angelou

#87. The reason why you can't is because you never tried

J.C. Hennington

#88. When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Les Brown

#89. Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Timothy Keller

#90. The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already know when you are faced with the reality of what your senses tell you to do!

Israelmore Ayivor

#91. I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.

Michael Sam

#92. I'm asking you to marry me within the next hour." He simply looked at her. "I can't think of a reason why you should. I have no moral sense to speak of. I lie, I cheat, I steal, and I'll probably drive you away screaming within the week. But if you marry me, I'll only do those things on your behalf.

Courtney Milan

#93. Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die.

Nitin Agarwal

#94. I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#95. Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

Dane Cook

#96. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Gary Keller

#97. I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

James Lipton

#98. The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

Ram Dass

#99. It'll always bother you, wondering what you missed out on," Merrin said now. "That's how men are. I'm just being practical. I'm not waiting to get married to you so I can fight through your midlife affair with our babysitter. I'm not going to be the reason for your regrets.

Joe Hill

#100. She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.

William Faulkner