Quotes of: Simple-reason Keyword

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

The House of the Seven Gables

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

If you don't like something... Don't accept it but leave it alone! Don't ever hurt it! There's never a reason to ABUSE anything! not even a tree!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age. And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.

The Billion-Dollar Marriage Contract

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.

Be

It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.

The Blue Hammer

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

Betsy and Joe

It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as before, and they have already proclaimed that there is no crime, that there is no sin. And that's consistent, for if you ha...

The Brothers Karamazov

In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

Bloodgifted

I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

Born of Persuasion

Don’t let anyone hold you back. Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force!

A Book of Pearlables: Affirmations for Promises and Provisions

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Brewster

Flames of outrage and reprisal had likewise made a comeback, his nearly forgotten, silent heritage no longer hidden by thirty years of compliance. Instead the fire grew, unmitigated by training, logic or reason.

Beyond the Hidden Sky

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be each other.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

Because of Winn-Dixie

Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

Christian Antisemitism

I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some r...

Abbie Cornish

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make to...

Ginni Rometty