Quotes of: Wrong-reasons Keyword

A blanket could be used for selfish reasons. I would list those reasons, but they’re mine—all of them. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

People being nice for no apparent reason always made me suspicious. People being nice to with no apparent reason made me even more suspicious.

Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason... Yet I am still me and you are still you.

Blessed Heart

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership i...

Gary L. Francione

I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters wel...

Tim DeKay

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. ...

Franco Moschino

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.

Adam Bede

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

The Atrocity Exhibition

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and shoul...

The Abolition of Man

During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.

It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Jesus-Shock

Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.

Religion, Reason & Revelation

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

A Scanner Darkly

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun! Pierre Anthon

Nothing

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism