Quotes of: Main-reason Keyword

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

P. J. O'Rourke

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

Robert M. La Follette

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Stephen Lang

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?" "Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

Compulsion

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Earth Unaware

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.

Bound to Accept

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

Blue Nights

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

Willie Aames

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

George Linnaeus Banks

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

James Madison

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

Ramana Maharshi

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Zadie Smith

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Tom Wopat