Quotes of: Reasons Keyword

Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.

The Moonflower Vine

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason.

Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Non Friction

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

Neanderthal Seeks Human

I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.

Naked and Sexual

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

The Last Lion 1: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

The Little White Bird

Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

Little Tea Book

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

Language: The Basics

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Lud-in-the-Mist

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Lake Wobegon Days

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

To the Lighthouse

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

Looking For It

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

Laughable Loves

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

Letters of Ayn Rand

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

The Lightning Thief

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

Sunshine

The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

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