Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

He told me the reason he put Tyson on his mask is because he was an idol of his, as a boxer. He knows now that [Tyson] he’s lost that right because of his conviction...

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias...

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all....

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition,...

He’s worse than ever. If they say, ‘Paula is going crazy,’ the reason is Simon is whispering things in my ear, like, ‘What’s the price of beans?’ Things that make no sense at all.

I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for...

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

If you’ve been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

I think that ‘Mr. Show’ was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter...

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then...

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

We either base our ‘confidence’ on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to...

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Simply put, there is no reason to buy shares aggressively at this point.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don’t you?””It is the stuff of living, my lady.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

I’m an extreme libertarian, but I realize we’re in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there’s no reason to argue about it.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

People inspire people. That’s the more reason why mentor-ship is a critical tool for dreams accomplishment.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

Your heart influences your art.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

The late Mr. David Hume, in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine, as a clock or a...

Friendships are the main reason why I’m still active. The group is not the same as it was. The composition has changed because of age and injuries.

You cannot underestimate people’s ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It’s a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

If they disagree with that, no matter what the reason is, it’s inevitable that we will be going on strike.

I definitely see myself stealing 40 bases. I’m healthy, and there’s no reason why I can’t do it.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or...

The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

Even though February job cuts showed a significant decline, there is no reason to think the job market is rebounding, … The fact that cuts remained above 100,000 is a strong indicator that employers are...

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

The relationship between truth and reason:”Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!

I’ve been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms – they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you’ve got to...

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable...