For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
