Top 1200 Happening For A Reason Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly, and creating the playroom, and then they'll get stuff that they don't expect, and can't even direct. All the audience wants to believe is that whatever is happening, it is happening for the first time. They want to see the people within the work exchanging dialogue and action in that moment. There are not a lot of actors that can do that.

Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

There is no reason why India and Pakistan are fighting. Similarly, there is no reason when two siblings fight.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there's no rhyme or reason.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.

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

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

My motto in life has always been 'Everything happens for a reason.' No matter what, good or bad, there is a reason for it all.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Entertaining is much more than a reason to eat and drink; It's a reason to bond with friends and families.

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream era I would have loved to have been part of in Hollywood then is happening right now, but it's happening on television, with these big complicated story arcs and real character-driven shows and sheer ambiguity left and right.