Quotes of: Wrong-reasons Keyword

I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harm...

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

There are boys lying awake, hating themselves. There are boys screwing for the right reasons and boys screwing for the wrong ones. There are boys sleeping on benches and under bridges, and luckier unlucky boys sleeping in shelters, which feel like sa...

Two Boys Kissing

Harry Potter: This connection between me and Voldemort... what if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel so angry, all the time. What if after everything that I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me? What if I'...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Traditional

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personal...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other, neither the government nor the entire nation is p...

Mark Twain

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves vi...

Gary L. Francione

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Changing Planes

There is no reason to feel embarrassed, Krysta." "Easy for you to say! You weren't caught mentally checking out my package!" ~ Étienne and Krysta

Darkness Rises

People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love.

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain.

The Greener Grass Conspiracy: Finding Contentment on Your Side of the Fence

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Gangster

Tüm kâinatı düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve değiştirilemez ilkeleri vardır. İnsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onları keşfedebilir.

The Age of Reason and Other Works

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give mor...

Christian de Portzamparc

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Zaha Hadid

may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

2000 Years of Disbelief

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Archangel's Kiss

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...

His Last Mistress

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!

Shaping the dream