Quotes of: Right-reason Keyword

SOMETIMES THE HARDEST THING AND THE RIGHT THING ARE THE SAME

Life

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

Is it okay to do something wrong if you're doing it to protect someone who deserves to be helped?" "That's an odd question Is there anything you need to tell me?" but I think sometimes you have to tell a white lie,. It's like when Grandma and Grandpa...

Elle Burton and the Reflective Portals

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mind, are all conceptualized by multiple metaphors, sometimes as many as two dozen. What each philosop...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

[Alex has just struck Dim on the legs] Dim: What did you do that for? Alex: For being a bastard with no manners, and not a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother. Dim: I don't like you should do what you done, and I'm not y...

A Clockwork Orange

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging ri...

The Amber Spyglass

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile.

Iranian

When both parties are right, it's a bad day for "right."

Yiddish

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Cranford

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

The Fault in Our Stars

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Brighton Belle

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

The Brothers Bishop

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Bad Science

Put work into your dreams.

19 Reasons Why He Really Left You Honey!

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.

All-American Girl

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

Henry Tumour

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

Notes from Underground

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Oryx and Crake

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Love Story