Famous Quotes & Sayings

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Oliver Stone

Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.

You've got a reason to play, and I think if you have respect for the game, you try to win. We'll try to show that on Sunday.

Max Baucus

And I think the reason is pretty clear. It's because it's embarrassing.

James Thurber

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Ellen DeGeneres

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Tom Russell

But all the reports we read and heard were that sound bleed was non-existent - which is one of the reasons we did that layout - and also the circular flow just really worked well in terms of crowd movement and just the experience. We were really pleased.

Simone Weil

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Lily Tomlin

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

Thomas Aquinas

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

Terry Pratchett

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

Terry Pratchett

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

Terry Pratchett

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

Shania Twain

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

Neil LaBute

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

Marcus Aurelius

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Marcus Aurelius

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Marcus Aurelius

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Peter Kreeft

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Peter Kreeft

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Kim Kardashian

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

James Cook

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

Jacques Lacan

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Heather Mills

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Milan Kundera

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

Jose Bergamin

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

Kevin Rudd

In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].

John Charles Polanyi

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

George H. W. Bush

You could tell I'm upbeat and I've got reason to be,

Lauryn Hill

Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.

James Richardson

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.