No Reason Quotes - Page 24

India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa

Sanal Edamaruku

Mother, Grateful, India

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For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

Use, Way, Get Money

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I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Ron Ben-Israel

Wedding, Cake, Taste

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You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Catherine Deneuve

Vampire, Needs, Back When

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Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

Joan Didion

Blessed, Writing, Mind

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Oct 17, 2012

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Writing, Suffering

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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We are disturbed - we can't play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history.

Carlos Barrios

Opportunity, Play, Growth

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People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Leah Hager Cohen

Cheating, Ignorance, People

Leah Hager Cohen (2013). “I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)”, p.9, Penguin

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With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

Wells Tower

Writing, Stuff, Reason Why

"The Tool Box: Wells Tower". www.newyorker.com. April 6, 2009.

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There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to raise fewer children or impel married opposite-sex couples to raise more children. The Virginia Marriage Laws therefore do not further Virginia's interest in channeling children into optimal families, even if we were to accept the dubious proposition that same-sex couples are less capable parents.

Henry Franklin Floyd

Sex, Couple, Children

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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.

Donald Trump

Success, People, Littles

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None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

Animal, Talking, Peculiar

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Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.

Rajneesh

Happiness, Beautiful, Men

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When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.

Marci Shimoff

Happiness, Perfect, Looks

Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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When I say this, I don't mean that if you can love more people you will not go into marriage. As far as I see, a person who can love more will not go into marriage only for love. He will go into marriage for deeper things. Please understand me: if a person loves many people, then there is no reason to marry someone only because of love - because he can love many people without marriage, so there is no reason.

Rajneesh

Marriage, Mean, People

Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

Elinor Ostrom

Believe, People, Incentives

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If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in any way. I see killing for no reason as extreme in every way.

Gary L. Francione

Way, Killing, Reason

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The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source]
The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

Swami Vivekananda

Thinking, Roots, Ego

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Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump from one stock to another, hold a losing position too long, and cut out of a winner too soon, for no reason other than fear of losing profit. Greed, Fear, Impatience, Ignorance, and Hope will all fight for mental dominance over the speculator. Then, after a few failures and catastrophes the speculator may become demoralised, depressed, despondent, and abandon the market and the chance to make a fortune from what the market has to offer.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Fall, Ignorance, Cutting

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To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love, Art, Life Lesson

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Look,
Here are we
On this starry night staring into space.
And I must say
I feel as small as dust
Lying down here.
What point could there be troubling?
Head down wondering what will
Become of me,
Why concern we cannot see
But no reason to abandon it.
Time is short but that's all right,
Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night.
Take your hands from your eyes, my love,
Everything must end some time,
Don't burn the day away.

Dave Matthews

Time, Lying, Eye

"Song: 'Pig'". 1998.

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There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

Russell Westbrook

Basketball, Effort, Trying

"All Bold Everything: A GQ+A With Russell Westbrook". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. January 18, 2013.

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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

Irwin Shaw

Writing, Play, Literature

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I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

Kurt Schwitters

Together, Buttons, Junk

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Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

Irving Kahn

Reason, Feels, Glad

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