No Reason Quotes - Page 33

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

Daniel Dennett

Religion, Purpose, World

Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, Hachette UK

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[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.

Quentin Smith

Lying, Flower, Fall

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If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

Berenice Abbott

Quality, Lenses, Use

Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

Dave Barry

Beautiful, Country, Couple

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

Henry Beard

Food, Knitting, Cooking

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America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

Dan J. Stein

Home, America, President

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I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

Mary Borden

Life, Done, London

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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Ice Cube

People, Dying, World

"Jamiel Shaw's killing lamented in Ice Cube video". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 03, 2008.

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There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

Joe Biden

World, Reason, Should

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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Sophocles

Children, Grief, Heart

Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.307, Penguin

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Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Patricia A. McKillip

Imagination, Adults, Research

Patricia A. McKillip (2012). “Wonders of the Invisible World”, p.18, Tachyon Publications

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I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

Natalie Goldberg

Dumb, Honor, Kind

Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.131, Open Road Media

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It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

Jeff Cooper

Gun, Men, Views

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Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

Tony Robbins

Expectations, Priorities, Feel Good

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Character, Giving, Why Not

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

John Waters

Airplane, Writing, Thinking

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It's frequently said that there is 'no reason' for such 'military-style weapons' as the Bushmaster to be available to citizens. But isn't that a lot like saying there is no reason why any civilian should drive a military-style car like the Hummer?

Glenn Beck

Military, Car, Style

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In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

Theodore Roosevelt

Character, Race, Two

Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

Dream, Children, Sleep

Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.50, Macmillan

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Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

Jerome K. Jerome

Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.

Troy Polamalu

Tests, Way, Demon

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Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping the disinherited within bounds in their quarrels or in their rebellions against those who hold the social wealth

Ricardo Flores Magon

Government, Principles, Would Be

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Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

Aleister Crowley

Children, Wine, Fire

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Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Cynthia Kenyon

Running, Country, People

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Without the fans there's no reason to be One Direction.

Zayn Malik

One Direction, Fans, Reason

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