Quotes of: Main-reason Keyword

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

Paul Auster

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Pierre Corneille

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

Paulo Coelho

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

Peter Dinklage

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Pamela Erens

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Pope Francis

I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.

Paula Garces

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Patricia Ireland

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

Penelope Keith

I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.

Peg Lynch

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Peter Mayhew

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Philipp Meyer

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

Pawan Mehra

There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!

Phil Wohl

The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.

Reader's Digest Association

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Ray Bradbury

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

Raymond E. Feist