Reasons Quotes

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach

Men, Food, Show

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

Others, Themselves, Found

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal

Mind, Others, Themselves

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Time, Nothing

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Politics, Power, Truth

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Good, Help

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot

Women, Home, Stay

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen

Quick, Approving

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Kent Nerburn

Love, Time, Give

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
Willie Nelson

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

Women, Men, Sex

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Patience, Joy, Soul

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei

Nature, Whether, Actions

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

Women, Men, Different

Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller

Men, Poor, Heard

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson

School, Old, Left

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner

Failure, Learning, Become

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor Swift

Love, Respect, Different

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
Nancy Lopez

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crisis, Leader, Action

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

Life, Passion, Ocean

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein

Life, Great, Feeling

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. Rowling

Different, Poor, Again

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Bo Bennett

Success, Good, Society

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology, Humanity, Wrong

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

Great, Human, Him

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

Music, Give, Die

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir

Adequate, None, Offered

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
J. K. Rowling

Country, Why, Stay

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