Reason Why Quotes - Page 26

• One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people.

  Mark Durie

  Reading, People, West

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blue, Color, Sneakers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.56, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.

  John Wayne

  Sex, Men, Healthy

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• I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Artist, Fiction

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.46, Random House

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• The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trying, Littles, Preaching

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• Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

  Brian Roberts

  Ordinary, Want, Accumulation

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• I wish I was just a left-handed hitter. It's really tough having to keep both sides sharp, and that's one reason why you don't see switch-hitters hit for that high of an average. You're always fighting one side or the other.

  Lance Berkman

  Fighting, Average, Wish

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• One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.

  Ada Lovelace

  Littles, Shifting, Firsts

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• Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

  Paul Nitze

  Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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• The whole tape [Dedication 5] is amazing. It's my favourite accomplishment [working with Lil Wayne] and I say that with thought. It's the biggest accomplishment I've made today, because Lil Wayne is probably the biggest reason why I'm sitting here right now, rapping and doing what I do. I'm a huge Wayne fan forever.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, Dedication, Accomplishment

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• When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Character, People

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• The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

  Jacques Barzun

  Memories, Block, Research

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• When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Skins, Enjoy, My Own

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

  H. G. Wells

  Philosophy, Home, Space

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• One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

  Afrojack

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

  Barry Harris

  Play, Jazz, Enjoy

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• 9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.

  Hal Hartley

  Teaching, Thinking, Agency

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• I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Thinking, Catholic

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• Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Enemy, Littles

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• The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Judging, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.260, Modern Library

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• The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self Esteem, Taken, School

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Charles Grandison Finney (1837). “Lectures to Professing Christians”, p.10

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