Reason Why Quotes - Page 38

• One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

  Steven Seagal

  People, Justice, Action

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• Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

  John Selden

  Prayer, Giving, Praying

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.140

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Tom Sizemore

  Movie, Men, Actors

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• The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

  Samuel Smiles

  Done, Littles, Action

  Samuel Smiles (18??). “Self-help”, p.113, St Pauls BYB

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• Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Block, Cowboy

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• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Invasion, Chemistry

  American Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, (p. 248), 1946.

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• Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

  Georg Solti

  Hate, Two, Important

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Men, Should

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fitness, Busy, Chiefs

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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• I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

  Willie Stargell

  Faith, Sports, Purpose

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• After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

  Ben Stein

  Men, White Man, Black

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• We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Memories, Brain, Different

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• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Nashville, Reason

  "Taylor Swift Donates $500G for Nashville Flood". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2010.

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• People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

  Serj Tankian

  People, Giving, Way

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

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• And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Winning, Player

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• Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Reason, Dies

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• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soldier, Reason, Dies

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• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Environmental, Use

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• We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

  Lewis Thomas

  Clever, Thinking, Numbers

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• Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Weirdness

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Camels, Logical

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Son, Keys

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• The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Europe, People

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