The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when I got to perform these lines and characters, I felt...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...

I don’t have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor...

When we need reasons to do something, we pretend to have it.

Il se servait de son esprit comme d’un coin pour élargir de son mieux les interstices du mur qui de toute part nous confine. Les failles grandissaient, ou plutôt le mur, semblait-il, perdait de lui-même...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary...

We’re simply making an inquiry to make sure we’re on top of the situation in the Treasury markets, … The reason to do this is simply to make sure that we’re on top of the...

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need...

There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we’ll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are...

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

If it shows anything, it shows that for whatever reason, and perhaps part of it was the timing, was that officials were not just very successful in mobilizing voters. If you can’t even mobilize your...

down unlit ,unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE

I wish I could pinpoint that (the reason) because that’s the one thing I highlighted to the team; we need to get off on a good start. I don’t know if there needs to be...

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason – and of our own desires.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a...

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.

My coach is leaving and that wasn’t the only reason, but that was a very big reason why I came here. I don’t think it would be best for me to stay here. I think...

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by...

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That’s been reason enough to discount...

But maybe that isn’t possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it’s the definition of madness to believe I’m right and everyone else...

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

From a strategic point of view it’s a good deal. The reason I don’t say a very good deal is because 26.50 is a full price.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

Staph lives on skin. That’s the reason why many infections start as a boil.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history’s brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like...

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands they pulsed with that same pulse. He had taken a bird...

Obviously it’s critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the...

Just the fact someone is a girl, or female, that they have two X chromosomes, there’s a reason to suspect sexual abuse.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods….I don’t believe in God. I believe...

Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you’re called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

I think it’s more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There’s a reason men don’t read, and it’s because books don’t...

All things can be achieved but not by all means, for some means are not proper

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience – the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters –...

It could be 50, it could be 300. The only reason we are thinking there may be less is that, illegal immigrants are afraid because there have been rumors of immigration officials being in the...

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith...

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.