Reason Why Quotes

• One  way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll  find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

  Benny Goodman

  Ems, Want, Way

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• The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Giving, Progress

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• There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

  Kara Goucher

  Focus, Reason, Millions

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Mar 20, 2013

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• There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Should, Schemes, Plans

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Chesterfield (Countess of), Selina Louisa Forester Bridgeman Bradford (countess of), Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (Marquis of) (1929). “1876 to 1881”

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• Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Thinking, Remember

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.515, Modern Library

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• The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, Thinking, World

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Play, Quality

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• We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark

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• I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

  Neil Cavuto

  Literature, Made, Overweight

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• Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

  Terrell Owens

  Alive, Should, Millions

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• I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Heart, Honor

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2009). “Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the Artist”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In my case, it felt really nice that a certain type of readership read the book and liked it, even though my readership is not as wide as certain popular books.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Nice, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Rome, Sound, Doctrine

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• The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

  Gayle Forman

  Void, Reason, Music Is

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.65, Penguin

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Children, War, Men

  J. M. Coetzee (1983). “Life & Times of Michael K.: A Novel”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Country, Kings, Kindness

  'Connecticut'

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Failing, Aim

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Election, Reason

  "U.S. Holds to Deadline for Iraq Power Transfer", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

  Zeno of Citium

  Funny, Two, Ears

  "The Stoic Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Klondike Classics, 2017.

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Fundamentals, Unions, Why Me

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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