Reason Quotes - Page 39

• I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

  William T. Wiley

  Thinking, Desire, Painting

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  Wallace Stevens

  Giving, Desire, Response

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.218, Vintage

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• Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

  Bobby Vinton

  Education, Believe, Talking

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• But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

  Polly Toynbee

  Education, Government, World

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, Swimming, Use

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• I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

  Charles Schumer

  Education, Jobs, Simple

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• My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  Edward Teller

  Courage, Fighting, Winning

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• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

  Elihu Root

  Faith, Fall, People

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  Oliver Lodge

  Fashion, Survival, Sitting

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• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Ernst Zundel

  Friends, Long, Reason Why

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• Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

  Tanya Tucker

  Friends, Thinking, People

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• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

  Garry Shandling

  Night, Use, Guests

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• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Billy Bragg

  Honesty, Writing, Personality

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• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  Karen Hughes

  Fun, Humor, President

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• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Reason Why, Financial

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• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

  Markus Wolf

  Love, Knowing, Important

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• With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Marriage, Children, Merit

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• One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  Russell Banks

  Motivation, Real, Book

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• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Movie, Reason Why, Concern

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• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  Movie, New York, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

  George Wald

  Peace, Grateful, Heart

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• The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Years, People

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• I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Relationship, Strong, Insane

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• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  Omar Sharif

  Respect, People, Personality

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• We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

  Peter Farrelly

  Sports, Thinking, Long

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