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Quotes About Reasons

There was a long history of children taken, the pretexts different but the reasons the same.
~ Celeste Ng
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
~ Cesare Pavese
Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
~ Charles de Leusse
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
~ Charles Dickens
La Palabra de Dios indica que hay razones que explican por qué es que algunas súplicas no son contestadas: cuando se pide por razones equivocadas (Santiago 4.3), cuando hay desobediencia (1 Juan 3.22), cuando se pide sin tomar en cuenta la voluntad de Dios (1 Juan 5.14), entre otras cosas.
~ Charles F. Stanley
While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~ Hannah More
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
~ Proverb
Acting Captain Warms' reasons for not requesting help from the cutter are equally unsatisfactory. He had not anticipated that the Tampa would carry such gear. Even so, he declared later, it would not have been feasible to ferry it across in such weather.
~ Gordon Thomas
Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that were clean and uncomplicated and easily understood as they were happening
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
It fascinates me. How I can remember my opinions, without remembering my reasons for them!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
~ Billy Graham
Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.
~ Bill Dedman
Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.
~ Sarah Lacy
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
~ George Eliot
Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.
~ Jay Leno
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
~ Van Jones
There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.
~ Niger Innis
The lack of 'quality' films in Pakistan was one of the reasons why I stayed away.
~ Saba Qamar
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
~ Kent Nerburn
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The things we do or want without reasons, and without requiring reasons - the things that define what is a reason for us and what is not-are the starting points of our skepticism. 
~ Thomas Nagel
People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.
~ Adam Scott
One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
~ Rob McClure