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Quotes About Reasons

It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons - for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
~ Roger Ebert
what had destroyed the Earth was not any unforeseeable disaster at all, nor any sudden and irreversible calamity. No. Predictions were made and justified and proved to be valid, and then simply ignored for commercial reasons.
~ Roger Levy
Getting angry is easy. But to get angry with the right person, in the right way, for the right reasons…that is not easy.
~ Roger M. Schwarz
Hundert gute Gründe, mich auf der Stelle umzubringen 1. Die beste Art, um sicherzugehen, dass ich nicht schon tot bin. 2. Die letzte Volkszählung wird dann nicht mehr stimmen. 3. Unter der Erde wartet man nur noch auf mich, um mit dem Feiern anzufangen. (...)
~ Roland Topor
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.
~ M. Scott Peck
You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
good decisions aren't always made for healthy reasons.
~ Maia Szalavitz
To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.
~ George Henry Lewes
Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each other.
~ Amy Tan
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
~ Andre Gide
Feminists have good reasons for feeling tired. The backlash against feminism has been deeply stupid.
~ Andrea Dworkin
No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons.
~ Andreas Capellanus
Documenting the reasons behind requirements will give your team invaluable information when making daily implementation decisions.
~ Andrew Hunt
If a man disliked you, he would dislike you for all the reasons he could think of.
~ Saul Bellow
Yes, there are good reasons for revulsion and fear. But revulsion and fear impair judgment. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
~ Saul Bellow
Although from time to time details of the psychical energy model underwent change, Freud never considered abandoning it for any other kind of model. Nor have more than a handful of other analysts. What, then, are the reasons that have led me to do so?
~ John Bowlby
they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,
~ John Brooks
One of de la Vega's observations about the Amsterdam traders was that they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,
~ John Brooks
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
~ Frank Herbert
True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.
~ Alejandro Castro Espin
It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
~ Chris Matthews
One of its most distinguished practitioners, Alexander Rosenberg, has recently argued that philosophy in fact addresses just two issues: the questions that the sciences—physical, biological, and social—cannot answer, and the reasons for that incapacity.
~ Edward O. Wilson