If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.
I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts.
There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
