Quotes of: Main-reason Keyword

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

Carol Gilligan

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Clara Hughes

Remember, it’s called ‘character development’ for a reason – it takes time, patience and understanding to build a fictional person.

Carla H. Krueger

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

Charles Lamb

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Charles Olson

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Colin Quinn

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clarence Thomas

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Jack Henry Abbott

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

Jon Anderson

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.

Emun Elliott

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Eric Holder

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Barry Eichengreen

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

Benny Goodman

One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

Bill Hader

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

Beyonce Knowles

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

B. F. Skinner

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara Tuchman

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Glenn Greenwald