My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were - is there any good reason why I shouldn't be buying some red stockings?
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.
I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.
The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.
I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.
When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
