A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I also know that Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson were both dancers. For some reason there’s that correlation there. I mean I don’t know what it is but I think we love to be...

One reason I am looking forward to playing is because of the misconception that the United States is going to take this as an exhibition rather than a competitive tournament, and that could not be...

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the...

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

How can you forgive someone when they can’t give a reason why

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’...

[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no...

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

If you just use what you have, that’s usually a good thing. There’s no reason to do a big project if the resources aren’t there.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things...

There is good reason to believe that a sharp weakening in the value of the U.S. currency is essential to the global rebalancing that must begin to take place if the world’s current account imbalances...

Behind every “Truth” there is always a “Lie”, Behind every ” Lie” there is always a “Reason”, and behind every ” Reason” there is always a “Person”….

There is only one power which can from within undermine egoism at the root, and really does undermine it, namely love, and chiefly sexual love. The falsehood and evil of egoism consists in the exclusive...

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu’écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout prêt de la raison quand...

It’s irresponsible to think things are just going to work out because you believe things happen for a reason. I refuse to accept these things. I refuse to give in to that absurdity. You saw...

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where...

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

You can’t be spontaneous within reason.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

In some ways I’m still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I’ve gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for...

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity…For where there is no end, there can...

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

It’s something I care about for some silly reason.

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, ‘Winter Light’ stays closest to my heart.

There are an infinite number of reasons to say no. Instead, try to focus on one good reason to say yes.

I don’t need a reason to have a reason.” Actually, I have no idea what he said since he was muttering.

I don’t think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there’s an idea that only white people are relatable. I don’t think it’s necessarily racist. But it’s odd, because the...

If I see a movie on TV that I’m in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It’s like I’m watching another person.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It’s not by chance, not an accident but it’s on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone’s life for...

Humor is reason gone mad.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

Nihil est sine ratione.There is nothing without a reason.

Everyday has its own meaning. Find the reason of your survival of the day and accomplish it.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in...

There’s a reason they’re ranked (so high).

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

The main reason to build the landing is to have a viable, alternate route to get to and from the Island, but we could take it a step further and provide a service.

When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity. Munindra Misra

si te olvidas de por qué haces lascosas te olvidarás de por qué debes hacerlas bien.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can’t really fault someone for saying, ‘What I’m doing right now works, so there’s no...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other’s rights.