Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
~By Margot Kidder ~
The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
~By Don Rose ~
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
~By Paul Farmer ~
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
~By William Blake ~
I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.
~By Leland Stanford ~
The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.
~By Lester Bangs ~
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
~By Max Born ~
I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.
~By John Elway ~
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
~By Peter Cooper ~
I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
~By Nicola Abbagnano ~
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
~By Ovid ~
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
~By Adam Duritz ~
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
~By Charles Tupper ~
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
~By Gwen Ifill ~
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
~By Tom Hooper ~
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
~By George William Norris ~
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
~By Edmund Leach ~
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.
~By Rick Derringer ~
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
~By Kate Chopin ~
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
~By Robert Towne ~
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 am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
~By John Warner ~
I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.
~By John Engler ~
The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
~By Louis Aragon ~
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
~By Herbert Marcuse ~
And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'
~By David Kay ~
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
~By Vannevar Bush ~
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
~By Mary Astell ~
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
~By Harold Coffin ~
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
~By Galen Rowell ~
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
~By Thomas More ~
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
~By Chaka Khan ~
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
~By Thomas R. Cech ~
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.
~By Tim Kaine ~
Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
~By Jason Mraz ~
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
~By Joseph Hume ~
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
~By Boris Becker ~
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
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 ~
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
~By Emma Bonino ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Cricket was my reason for living.
~By Harold Larwood ~
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
~By Jon Lee Anderson ~
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
~By Kurt Loder ~
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
~By Colin Firth ~
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
~By Mary Wortley ~
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
~By Max Baucus ~
The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
~By Dick Butkus ~
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
~By Cheech Marin ~
If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
~By Corrine Brown ~
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.
~By Ben Jackson ~
I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
~By Lara St. John ~
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
~By Charles Curtis ~
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
~By Hannah More ~
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
~By Carter Glass ~
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
~By Mako ~
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
~By Elihu Root ~
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