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Quotes About Reasons

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
~ Sam Harris
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
~ Daniel Dennett
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
~ Daniel Dennett
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Don't ask things that don't concern you. After all, everybody has their own reasons.
~ Yukio Mishima
Are terrorists going to be deterred -- are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.
~ zinn howard iii
The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can't be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they're trying hard.
~ Dennis Cooper
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
~ Kevin Kelly
I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.
~ Johnny Hunt
The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.
~ Scott Walker
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.
~ Jeffrey D. Sachs
Try to respect the reasons your lifetrap developed in the first place. In your childhood, it was essential for your emotional survival. But what was once a help to you is now hurting you, and it is time to give it up. It is time for you to begin the slow journey out of self-denial and self-defeat, and to reclaim your life for yourself.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
~ Jennifer Fallon
God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might
~ Elmore Leonard
In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.
~ Erica Jong
In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder....Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure....Some killers enjoy the kill....For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
~ Amanda Quick
The foreseeability of the world out there varies in systematic ways for systematic reasons.
~ Amy B. Zegart
No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.
~ Paul Thomas Anderson
My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
~ Blake Farenthold
You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.
~ Jordan Peterson
I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.
~ Arbaaz Khan