Reason Why Quotes - Page 16

• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  War, Greed, Desire

  63 Copy quote

• One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

  Scot McKnight

  Christian, Needs, Today

  Scot McKnight (2016). “The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited”, p.27, Zondervan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

  Adam Kirsch

  Book, Should Have, Ideas

  47 Copy quote

• If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Encouragement, Years, Law

  4 Copy quote

• Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Reality, Hands

  16 Copy quote

• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Years, Singing

  45 Copy quote

• The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Years, Get Better

  8 Copy quote

• And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Thinking, Shapes, Looks

  10 Copy quote

• The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Feelings, Contentment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Understanding, Umbilical Cord

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heaven, Hell, Highways

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2014). “Illusion: Number 5 in series”, p.168, Hachette UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

  Eli Broad

  Giving, Way, Give Me

  "Billionaire Philanthropist Eli Broad on the Secrets of His Success". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.forbes.com. September 18, 2012.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Temptation

  10 Copy quote

• One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.

  Chad Channing

  Song, Player, Guitar

  4 Copy quote

• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

  15 Copy quote

• It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

  Charlene Li

  Reality, People, Pages

  4 Copy quote

• What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

  Ambrose

  Years, Overcoming, Benefits

  7 Copy quote

• I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Believe, Science, Race

  97 Copy quote

• Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, People, Four

  71 Copy quote

• The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.

  Frank Luntz

  Two, Common Sense, Diversity

  4 Copy quote

• Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

  Jeff Thomson

  Disappointment, Games, Bigs

  4 Copy quote

• Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.

  Glenn McGrath

  Thinking, Class, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Ideas

  141 Copy quote