If you think it’s bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!’ He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. ‘Do try to remember we’re visitors-and not welcome ones-if you...

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand,...

I try to travel as much as I can… I’m always looking for a reason to.

Thou shalt not steal.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters;...

I’m small, I’m young – and I’m so different. You’ve always respected that difference, and you’ve always trusted it. Trust me now. There’s a reason I am the way I am, and there’s a reason...

Religion doesn’t just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves– to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes...

Helen stared at him “How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?””You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic” He smailed at her

Reason, you’ll always be half-blind.

But dogmatism–or the inclination ‘to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking’–is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve...

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are...

Nobody has been willing to stick their neck out about when we’ll see a tech recovery and there’s no reason to think that Microsoft, with its conservative bias, would be any different.

Mentally, we just didn’t get it done for whatever reason. Stuff went our way a couple times in the Cardinals series, and this time we didn’t put ourselves in a position to have things go...

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

The reason they’re looking at the site is to have a visual from Douglas . We would block the visual if we stayed.

There’s no reason to come back.

be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

You try to go within reason, … and to make sure you’re doing smart things. And you take a long, hard look at a game like this and say, ‘Okay, what can we do to...

there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people...

One of the reasons I did ‘Louie Bluie’ and ‘Crumb’ with Criterion was because I like a lot of their older French films. That’s the only reason. I watch these films by Jacques Becker and...

We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth....

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

I’ve never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I’ve been to Los Angeles on my hands. I’ve never made a movie there and I’ve never been there for working reasons. The...

A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a...

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

It’s difficult to know where to begin, sir.”Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can’t look that far back.’ He got up from his desk and went...

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

This kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?The trouble is, these pious...

When…did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A...

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you’re willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would...

There are two ‘Snow White’ movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was ‘Armageddon’ and then ‘Deep Impact.’ You know, ‘Andromeda Strain’ and then ‘Outbreak.’ Like, all...

Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference...

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment...

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

It’s always weird when you see a movie, and there’s no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that… But if it came organically, I...

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons...

It’s very close between the two. I wish I had a better reason besides what I just told you. I think Sweeney is our best guy coming off the bench.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

I’ve never missed a flight. And I don’t see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a...

I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

But the death of spirit goes by another name. It is usually called the birth of reason.The dreams of reason are, at this late date, everywhere to be seen, much like headstones in a cemetery....

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Whatever it is, they have our number. For whatever reason, we don’t get the breaks against Texas.

Never let money be the reason why you betray your close companion. You may not have the joy to spend it because you are supposed to enjoy that money with that companion you betrayed! Do...

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the ’90s in general – growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day...