Quotes of: Main-reason Keyword

Was it a form of madness, no longer to be able to trust your sense of things? To be betrayed by decisions apparently arrived at carefully and through reason, but really no more than marauding appetites cunningly tricked out as reasonable choices?

The Coming Storm

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and ...

Crome Yellow

Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their child...

Dibs in Search of Self

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

The Enchantress Of Florence

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

Hollow City

A blanket could be used for selfish reasons. I would list those reasons, but they’re mine—all of them. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

People being nice for no apparent reason always made me suspicious. People being nice to with no apparent reason made me even more suspicious.

Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason... Yet I am still me and you are still you.

Blessed Heart

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership i...

Gary L. Francione

I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters wel...

Tim DeKay

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. ...

Franco Moschino

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.

Adam Bede

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

The Atrocity Exhibition

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and shoul...

The Abolition of Man

bottom of page 33: We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single

During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.

It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels