Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John D. Barrow

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

Linda Ronstadt

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

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.

Keith Haring

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...

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.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Julianne Hough

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do.

Richard Paul Evans

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Richard Dawkins

There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.

Woody Allen

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

William Whewell

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

William Shenstone

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

William Faulkner

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Tori Amos

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

Will Smith

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

Vladimir Lenin

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Wallace Stegner

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

W. H. Auden

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

William Cowper

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Roberto Cavalli

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist,

Sarah Dessen

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

William Faulkner

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.

Saint Augustine

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Voltaire

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

William Empson

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

William Strunk, Jr.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.