Flames of outrage and reprisal had likewise made a comeback, his nearly forgotten, silent heritage no longer hidden by thirty years of compliance. Instead the fire grew, unmitigated by training, logic or reason.

I told him, ‘You’re here for a reason. The hardest thing to do in the big leagues is not let a bad day carry into the next. His last two at-bats [fly balls to right...

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language… but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also...

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of...

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Have you got something against reason?

Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don’t care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own...

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

For some reason, … I don’t know if it’s because we have a young team, but normally in the second half that’s when we start to play our best ball. We feel as long as...

We have reason to feel good, but it’s also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn’t happen.

I’ve done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I’ve never noodled. And the reason I’ve never noodled is because I don’t want to get bit by a water moccasin. I’m just too...

We have no reason to believe he’s been abducted, but we have no idea where he could be or why he would do this.

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don’t pick, and the reason I don’t redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come...

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did...

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

For some reason in today’s society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it’s because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people’s lives.

It didn’t make you noble to step away from something that wasn’t working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you...

I don’t know what happened. I was doing great from the free-throw line all game and, for some reason, that one fell short.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

This is the biggest win of the year for us. The reason I say this is such a big win is Kentucky, Florida, Vanderbilt and Tennessee are all competing for the Eastern Division title. When...

European stocks have had a very good run and there is no reason why the trend should stop. We may see short-term profit-taking, but I don’t expect a strong correction.

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave;...

There is no reason why it shouldn’t have happened back when they were purchased. They weren’t purchased to sit in a closet.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn’t sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with...

Faithfulness imparts God’s reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Yes, I’m a materialist. I’m willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I’m unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders...

The reason the article is reprinted so much, I believe, is that it’s a reminder that we’re no different, … Sure, these tribal people have all these beliefs and practices that seem so weird –...

Every little or big problem has a reason,Every year there is a winter season,Every trouble goes away with time,After winter spring comes with rhyme.

It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the non-punishment of a certain act of iniquity proved that there were no gods....

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the...

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole...

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its...

The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith...

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is not utopian. It is merely to provide good reasons for being an atheist....

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone

The reason is obvious,

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.