We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
The only reason I am living is to express my love for you and for the universe.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
