Reason Why Quotes

• One  way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll  find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

  Benny Goodman

  Ems, Want, Way

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• The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Giving, Progress

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• There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

  Kara Goucher

  Focus, Reason, Millions

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Mar 20, 2013

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• There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Should, Schemes, Plans

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Chesterfield (Countess of), Selina Louisa Forester Bridgeman Bradford (countess of), Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (Marquis of) (1929). “1876 to 1881”

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• Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Thinking, Remember

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.515, Modern Library

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• The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, Thinking, World

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Play, Quality

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• We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark

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• I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

  Neil Cavuto

  Literature, Made, Overweight

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• Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

  Terrell Owens

  Alive, Should, Millions

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• I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Heart, Honor

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2009). “Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the Artist”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

  John Redwood

  Should Have, Design, Risk

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• The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

  Minor White

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Taken, Men

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• There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now.

  Shemp Howard

  Drinking, Thinking, Drunk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Failing, Aim

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

  Willem de Kooning

  Oil, Flesh, Painting

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974

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• One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, People, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 17, 2012

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