Quotes of: Reasons Keyword

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other...

The Principles of Morals and Legislation

The possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. When souls become wicked they will certainly use this possibility to hurt one another; and this, perhaps, accounts for four-fifths of the suffering of men. It ...

The Problem of Pain

Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jo...

Kurt Vonnegut

I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean? First you try and climb, pretending it never happened, but it's too tall. Then you try to go a...

Michael J. Sullivan

Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only a woman can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul int...

Douglas W. Phillips

Terence Mann: Ray, there was a reason they chose me, just as there was a reason they chose you and this field. Ray Kinsella: Why? Terence Mann: I gave an interview. Ray Kinsella: What interview? What are you talking about? Terence Mann: The one about...

Field of Dreams

Parole Board Member #1: Mr Ocean, the purpose of this hearing is to determine, whether, if released, you are likely to break the law again. While this was your first conviction, you have been implicated, though never charged, in over a dozen other co...

Ocean's Eleven

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

The Case for Christianity

She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent and...normal and self destructive and lonely and terrified of every thing And she loved Disaster—

A Collection of Carvings

When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

City of Glass

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

A Clockwork Orange

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Critique of Pure Reason

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

Correspondence

It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

Criticism and Reviews

I'm just the reason they married. Mum says I was a surprise. Dad says I was an accident. Truth is ... I am their mistake.

Cinnamon Rain

Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!

Daily Drive 365

The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!

Daily Drive 365

Stress is equivalent to weapons of mass destruction armed for wrong reasons. The difference is that, it is less costly as compared to the atomic bombs! However, it destroys faster!

Daily Drive 365