Reasons Quotes

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Nothing, Reason

Reasons Quote

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Failure, Single, Million

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Zig Ziglar

Emotional, Logical, Buy

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman, Find, Her

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan

Good, Real, Two

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Men, Friends

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Listen, Mankind

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Promise, Break, Prince

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

Men, Wise, Find

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Down, Sense, Keep

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin

Hate, Pain, Sense

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith

Life, Real, Black

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway

Success, Work, Become

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul

War, Powerful, End

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
George Washington Carver

Him, Through, Leaving

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Enough, Playing

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Money, Poverty, Financial

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma

Faith, Forward, Together

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Politics, Power, Truth

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker

Women, Men, Black

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
Abdul Kalam

Human, Poverty, Violence

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Understand, Cannot

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Patriotism, Trivial

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
Lil Wayne

Love, Women, Deep

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Patience, Joy, Soul

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas Adams

Dead, Year, Tax

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin

Why, Hell, Another

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

Others, Themselves, Found

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