Quotes of: Simple-reason Keyword

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

Tarzan of the Apes

I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.

'Twas a Dark and Delicious Christmas

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

Tigerman

Resistance to change" is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

… the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.

Pig's Foot

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

The Power and the Glory

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

Pope Joan

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Pandemonium

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Pensées

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Pride and Prejudice

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

Perception and Misperception in International Politics

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Persuasion

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

The Phantom Tollbooth

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.

Reason to Breathe

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

Red

Xavier had thought he was in paradise before. He’d been wrong. Sophia was more than paradise. She was the very reason he breathed.

Recaptured Dreams

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

A Treatise of Human Nature

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

Tantalized

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

when life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Twilight

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience