Quotes of: Simple-reason Keyword

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.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

Surrender

Probably the reason the NY Yankees want to move their farm team to Ocala is to recruit me. I am the Babe Ruth of farming. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

You’re better than this, Adrian. Whatever the reason, you’re better than it. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you’re weaker than you are

Silver Shadows

Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.

Selling Simplified

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

A Study in Scarlet

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

The Sweetest Thing

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.

The Shadow of the Wind

Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius