Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
My heartbeat keeps me alive. Your heartbeat lets me know I'm alive. Our heartbeats give me the reason to live.
Finally,” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.” “I’m no angel,” Eleanore quietly insisted. “Yes, you are,” said every man in the room.
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
