Reason Quotes - Page 26

• You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

  Jonathan Swift

  Persons

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• The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• The reason men rule is because women let them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Men

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, Journey, Feelings

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• I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Emotion

  "Country-pop star Shelby Lynne: an unfiltered original". Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview, www.denverpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Hate, Blood, Rage

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Heart, Laughing, Balance

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 10, 2014

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• There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

  R. D. Laing

  Obedient

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• Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

  Peter De Vries

  Starting, Awfulness

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Baseball, People, Bats

  "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

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• And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, People, Mind

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• A nation lives forever through its concepts, honor, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honor, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honor at all costs.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Judging, Forever, Historical

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

  Jamais Cascio

  Running, People, Decision

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• Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Integrity, Believe

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Feb 22, 2012

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• If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Letting Go, Selfish, Yoga

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2011). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Morning, Men

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• There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Quality, Eras

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• The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

  Leonid Andreyev

  War, Loss, Honorable Death

  "The Seven That Were Hanged".

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• Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

  Thayer David

  Jobs, Actors, Hours

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• The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

  Frances Lear

  Men, Mortality, Older Women

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• If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Love You, Dark, Moments

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• Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

  Zayn Malik

  Moving, Bitter, Happened

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• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  Zayn Malik

  Goodbye, Hate, Sick

  "Zayn Malik's mother jumps to his defence after he receives cruel taunts on Twitter" by Owen Tonks, www.mirror.co.uk. May 28, 2013.

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