Quotes of: Wrong-reasons Keyword

Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.

Lindsay Price

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

Ted Cruz

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

Emma Bonino

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

John Barrowman

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Sharon Stone

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

Timothy Noah

Getting a handle on why wolves do what they do has never been an easy proposition. Not only are there tremendous differences in both individual and pack personalities, but each displays a surprising range of behaviors depending on what's going on aro...

Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those'll fool 'em. I supposed I hoped the European locals' conversation would go something like this: PIERRE: Ha! Look at ...

Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide

Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters “do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in...

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly known can’t be described or articulated by creativity or logic, science or art — but perhaps it can be described ...

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

What's wrong with the world," Nana explained, "is that people stopped listening to their hearts... "Not everybody stopped listening," she continued, "but enough people did to make a difference. We've go so much in this life that all we know how to do...

Squashed

Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgi...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is nothing wrong with being Human. What is wrong is how so many take for granted the gift of our being human and never learn that we are also to be HUMANE, hence our HUMANITY. We are born Man but it takes years of education, trial and error to ...

Levon Peter Poe

I think that the most beautiful of people are like exquisite serpents— glorious sheen, glorious patterns and elaborate grace— but you do wrong to cast envy upon them, lest you want to also taste of the venom they carry in their mouthes! Beauty is...

C. JoyBell C.

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by ou...

Gary L. Francione

Amon Goeth: I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder? What would be wrong with that? I realize that you are not a person in the strictest sense of the word, but, um, maybe you're right...

Schindler's List

Sally: I had the most terrible vision. Jack Skellington: That's splendid! Sally: No - it was about your Christmas. There was smoke... and fire! Jack Skellington: That's not *my* Christmas! *My* Christmas is filled with laughter, and joy... and this: ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

[opening narration immediately after the title sequence] Brian Johnson: Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever i...

The Breakfast Club

Have you got something against faith?” “Have you got something against reason?

The Devil's Breath