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Quotes About Reasons

If your attitude is good and you want to have good matches and you want to be employed for the right reasons, then I think people start to see that and respect that and respect you as a person, and you can fit in anywhere.
~ John Morrison
My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.
~ George P. Bush
The U.S. relationship with the Palestinians is a limited, one-way street for a number of reasons, one prominently being a lack of common moral values.
~ Katie Pavlich
Here are some pointers from this section: • Understand the nature of the companies you own and the specific reasons for holding the stock. ("It is really going up!" doesn't count.) • By putting your stocks into categories you'll have a better idea of what to expect from them.
~ Peter Lynch
When Pascal wrote of the heart as having reasons that reason does not know, he was referring to a type of knowledge that is foreign to the academic disciplines and different from the type of knowledge we seek in daily life. He was referring to the knowledge of a transformation that could never be placed into words or experience and thus could never be objectified, dissected, and distanced from us.
~ Peter Rollins
Insight is rarer, and infinitely more precious. A strong insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand reasons to act and make something happen. That, more than anything, should be your reason to fight and persevere for your own insight moment. When you are armed with a powerful insight, the ideas never stop flowing.
~ Phil Dusenberry
Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can't think of good enough reasons why it might not be a good idea.
~ Philip Kerr (author)
It's a rare day when a journalist says, "The market rose today for any one of a hundred different reasons, or a mix of them, so no one knows.
~ Philip Tetlock
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
~ Carlisle Floyd
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
~ Neil Cross
I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.
~ Keeley Hazell
Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.
~ Luke Hemmings
I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.
~ Genevieve O'Reilly
When accidents happen, I think it's always human error. So that's what I want to eliminate. I've had lots of climbing accidents in my youth. You come up with lots of reasons, but ultimately it's human error.
~ Jon Krakauer
These murders are shocking for a host of reasons, but no aspect of the crimes is more disturbing than Lafferty's complete and determined absence of remorse.
~ Jon Krakauer
People who have a choice will no longer work to serve your reasons, your goals. They will not work to serve your authority, they will only work to serve their own.
~ Jonathan Raymond
Por donde resulta indudable que la Naturaleza ha limitado por completo la producción de plantas y animales de volumen tan extraordinario a este continente, por razones cuya determinación dejo a los filósofos.
~ Jonathan Swift
Çiftler kendilerini biraraya getiren ayn? nedenlerle ayr?l?rlar
~ Jorge Bucay
Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable; naturalmente, ese ulterior trabajo modificaba la obra para él, pero no para otro.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable; naturalmente, ese ulterior trabajo modificaba la obra para él, pero no para otros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I understood that the work of the poet was not in poetry; it was in the invention of reasons for poetry to be admirable; Naturally, this further work modified the work for him, but not for another.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Antes, la teología me interesó, pero de esa fantástica disciplina (y de la fe cristiana) me desvió para siempre Schopenhauer, con razones directas;
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Being in the place of a mother to you, since your poor mother died, I say this, Audrey—when a gentleman goes to Australia, he has his reasons. And when he stays in Australia fifteen years, as Mr. Mark says, and as I know for myself for five years, he has his reasons. And a respectably brought-up girl doesn't ask what reasons.
~ A.A. Milne