Reason Quotes - Page 21

• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Color, Needs

  "Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation" (1943)

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• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

  Art Donovan

  Vegetables, Potatoes, Sides

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• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Good Things

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• You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Soul, Helping

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• Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

  William Arthur Ward

  Real, Believe, Optimism

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• You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Giving, Goes On

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• There's a reason why the form was originally silent

  David Henry Hwang

  Reason Why, Silent, Form

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• I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

  Brendan Fehr

  Hockey, Play, Enjoy

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• Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Law

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Swimming, Thinking

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Jail, Gone

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• There is no end to the creativity, ingenuity, and tenacity of those who look for reasons to criticize. They cannot seem to release their grip on grudges. They gossip and find fault with others. They nurse wounds for decades, taking every opportunity to tear down and demean others. This is not pleasing to the Lord, 'for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work' (James 3:16).

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Creativity, Opportunity, Nurse

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• I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

  A. A. Milne

  Diaries, Reason Why, Journal

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Pain, Exercise, Needs

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• There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

  Wally Amos

  Fear, Two, People

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• Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

  Socrates

  Travel, Doe, Helping

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• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Triumph, Casts

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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• There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Believe, Animal, Intellect

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• Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
  harmonyof the body, senses, mind
  and intellect, reason, consciousness
  and self. When all these are integrated
  that is true yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

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• When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Excuse, Staying

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• The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, Mean, Men

  John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

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• The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Regret, Theatre, Shows

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

  Carol Burnett

  Faith, Religious, Pain

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• When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Order, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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