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...

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

It doesn’t matter why I want to leave. You’re the reason I want to stay.

For whatever reason, we wouldn’t pull the trigger. We weren’t being aggressive.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates...

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Mel exhaled. “Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Assuming markets behave reasonably well in 2006, I would expect there is no reason we couldn’t grow operating earnings in double digits.

The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, accept this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God’s existence...

The reason I first wanted to start him was I remembered the times we would face him in Atlanta and just think you were going to kill him. And he always stuck it [to us].

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...