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Quotes About Reasons

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
~ Alain de Benoist
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
~ Frederick Carl Frieseke
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.
~ Orson Scott Card
One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.
~ Michael Cunningham
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
~ Kathleen Battle
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
~ David Lange
I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.
~ Reuven Rivlin
Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.
~ Elisabeth of Wied
I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.
~ Martin Sheen
Love me for stupid reasons, I like those most.
~ Sarah Slean
There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
have had the best intentions?' Leonora gave him a cold look. 'He said one of the reasons for marrying me
~ Betty Neels
The way I see it, there are three reasons never to be unhappy. First, you were born. This in itself is a remarkable achievement.
~ Bill Bryson
Historically time-stoppers don't have a great win-loss record, although they score high in the sentimental 'doing all the wrong things for the right reasons' stakes.
~ Bill Buford
Quiero proceder a una especie de identificación. Saber que las pasiones existen y no poder sentirlas es horroroso. - Pero entonces -dijo Ángel-está claro que tiene usted por lo menos este deseo, y eso basta para que no esté tan vacío. - No tengo ningún motivo para decidirme por una cosa más bien que por otra -dijo Jacquemort-. Deseo robarles a los demás las razones que tienen.
~ Boris Vian
Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.
~ Tad Williams
No son razones, son mostraciones perfectamente objetivas. Vos tendés a moverte en el continuo, como dicen los físicos, mientras que yo soy sumamente sensible a la discontinuidad vertiginosa de la existencia.
~ Julio Cortazar
Ich gebe nur zu bedenken, daß die meisten Dinge von Wichtigkeit, die jemals geschehen sind, mehr als nur einen Grund hatten.
~ Jurek Becker
but the other guard, who couldn't have been more than twenty, was wearing a snarl on his face that Wolgast didn't like. There was always one guard who liked the job for the wrong reasons, and this was the one.
~ Justin Cronin
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
~ Juvenal
That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?
~ Kamila Shamsie
I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.
~ Skip Bayless
Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication
~ Francis J. Beckwith