No Reason Quotes

• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

  James A. Owen

  Regret, Past, Reason

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• Evil requires no reason.

  Alberto Manguel

  Evil, Reason

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.231, Vintage Canada

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

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• No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

  Julian Baggini

  Way, Assuming, Reason

  Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl (2011). “The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods”, p.123, John Wiley & Sons

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• We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Amby Burfoot (2009). “Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition”, p.176, Rodale

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• Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

  Frank Zappa

  Reason

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• My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

  Sonja Sohn

  Children, People, Perception

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• There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

  Jodi Sweetin

  Pregnancy, Emotional, Next Day

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• Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Party, Government

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• I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

  Jim Lehrer

  Lying, Reason, Ifs

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• What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

  Max Landis

  Character, People, Mind

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• Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

  Janet McTeer

  Mirrors, Auditions, Succeed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

  Robert Cray

  War, People, Greed

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• Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, Laughing, Judging

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• There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reason, Ifs

  "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" by Roger Moore, The Peoria Journal Star, www.raybradbury.com. August 2000.

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• Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  Reason, Form

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• I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Pride, Artistic, Talent

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• When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.

  Henci Goer

  Risk, Routine, Reason

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• I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

  Francois Hollande

  Attitude, Distance, Presidential

  "Francois Hollande: 'France Isn't Just Any Country'". Slate.fr interview, www.slate.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

  Marilyn Manson

  Tattoo, Brother, Flower

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

  Marc MacYoung

  Criminals, Violence, Reason

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• Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Husband, Together, Littles

  Tehmina Durrani (1998). “Blasphemy: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin Books India

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