Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.
~By Sela Ward ~
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
~By Don Delillo ~
Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
~By Thayer David ~
We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.
~By Brandon Boyd ~
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
~By Tom Sizemore ~
It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.
~By Eric Rudolph ~
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.
~By Franz Boas ~
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.
~By Denis Leary ~
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.
~By John Clayton ~
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
~By William Allen White ~
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
~By John Calvin ~
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.
~By Betty Hill ~
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
~By Kevin Costner ~
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
~By Stendhal ~
Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.
~By Sean Paul ~
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
~By Edward Coke ~
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.
~By Casey Affleck ~
Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.
~By Ben Jackson ~
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
~By John Hutton ~
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
~By Eric Carr ~
The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
~By Barney Frank ~
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
~By Maureen Murphy ~
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
~By John Howard ~
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
~By Joichi Ito ~
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
~By Amy Lowell ~
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~By Aristotle ~
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
~By Gerard Butler ~
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
~By Basil Hume ~
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
~By John Cusack ~
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
~By Henry Lawson ~
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
~By Dave Chappelle ~
What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
~By Thomas Mann ~
That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.
~By Kit Bond ~
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
~By Denzel Washington ~
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
~By Russell Banks ~
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
~By Tom Clancy ~
I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.
~By Michael McKean ~
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
~By Willie Tyler ~
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
~By Dick Wolf ~
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
~By James Bryce ~
I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
~By Jim Cramer ~
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
~By John Astin ~
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
~By Paul Robeson ~
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~By Frances Wright ~
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
~By Eddie Murray ~
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
~By Eleanor Holmes Norton ~
The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss.
~By Jo Brand ~
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
~By Peter Hook ~
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.
~By Frank Pittman ~
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
~By Dick Cheney ~
And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
~By Elvis Presley ~
We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
~By Pierre Nicole ~
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
~By Brand Blanshard ~
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
~By Jean Paul ~
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
~By Peter Cushing ~
The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.
~By Tom Metzger ~
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