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Quotes About Reasons

Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.
~ Sherwood Smith
Reasons are to an argument as Obstacles are to a bullet The Weak ones get wrecked while the stronger ones force it to change its course!!!!
~ Siddharth Astir
He suggests there are only three reasons why Ryanair might fail - 'nuclear war in Europe, a major accident o believing our own bullshit
~ Siobhan Creaton
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
~ Henry James
Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.
~ Tiger Woods
Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. They become self-destructive. Many codependents are barely surviving, and most aren't getting their needs met. As counselor Scott Egleston says, codependency is a way of getting needs met that doesn't get needs met. We've been doing the wrong things for the right reasons.
~ Melody Beattie
There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.
~ Mercedes Lackey
He ran because his decision had been made. It had been made for him by the convergence of half-forgotten motives, of desires and reasons, of varied yet congruous impulses. And the convergence of all these to a focus point of action.
~ Mervyn Peake
Everything we do in life is rooted in theory. Whether we consciously explore the reasons we have a particular perspective or take a particular action there is also an underlying system shaping our thought and practice.
~ bell hooks
I am not sure,' Mordecai told Thomas, 'whether omens can be trusted.' 'Of course they can.' 'I should like to hear your reasons. But show me your urine first.' 'You said I was cured,' Thomas protested. 'Eternal vigilance, dear Thomas, is the price of health. Piss for me.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
~ Bertrand Russell
When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.
~ Bertrand Russell
Ser optimista o pesimista es cuestion de temperamento, no de razones.
~ Bertrand Russell
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.
~ Mindy Grossman
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
~ George M. Whitesides
Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable acceptable. By giving good reasons for what would otherwise distress us, we make sense out of confusing and even frightening situations.
~ Susan Forward
Many Christians claim to believe in Jesus, but only a minority can articulate good reasons for why their beliefs are true.
~ Josh McDowell
need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It'll take only a few seconds. It's not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I'll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.
~ Judith S. Beck
I think that one reasons I like Brett Kavanaugh is he was clearly one that was gonna interpret the Constitution.
~ Mike Braun
People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. To avoid hurting other people. To protect their jobs. Sometimes I think people just get so used to their public versions of the truth, if they've been doing it for a long time, that they forget the secret they've been hiding.
~ Fran Hawthorne
Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen's self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.
~ Frances Hardinge
Everyone has their own reasons. Suffering and happiness aren't things that you can compare.
~ Bisco Hatori