Reason Quotes - Page 15

• The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

  Zayn Malik

  Sadness, Giving, Unexplained

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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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• I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac

  Atheist, Atheism, Want

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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.

  Cassandra Danz

  Home, Garden, Romance

  Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

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• He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Logic, Reason And Logic, Fugitive

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• Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

  Bob Goff

  Giving, Trying

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Mar 19, 2014

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it ― so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Children, Believe

  David G McAfee (2012). “Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist - The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer”, p.108, Dangerous Little Books

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• People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, People, Giving

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

  Brian Greene

  Animal, Practice, People

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• Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.
  
  These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Europe, Ideas

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.23, Random House

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• There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

  Ron Paul

  Hemp, Farmers, Raises

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• Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hate, Heart, Games

  "Kobe's first TV ad for Nike debuts" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. February 12, 2006.

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• People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.

  Robert Schumann

  Beautiful, Eye, Piano

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• The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Writing, Technology

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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Memorial Day, Dad

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• If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, Make You Happy, Motive

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.34, BookBaby

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• There are only two reasons why a woman doesn't pick up her phone. She either likes him too much or hates him too much.

  Yoon Se-ah

  Hate, Phones, Two

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• There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

  Sean O'Casey

  Thinking, Atheism, Dignity

  1926 The Plough and the Stars, act1.

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• Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Dignity, Breathe

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• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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• 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.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Depression, Our Society, Excuse

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• If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Two, Want Something, Wellness

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• This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.

  Jarryd Hayne

  Boys, Player, Rugby League

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