The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?" "Not particularly. You have that effect on people.
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.
My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.
Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.
Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.
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.