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Always Given

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

- A. J. P. Taylor

Other Telling

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

- A. R. Ammons

Which Read

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

- A. S. Byatt

Compelling None

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

- Aaron Hill

Think I Think

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

- Aaron Neville

Pretty Literally

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

- Aaron Patzer

I Think Been

I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

- Aaron Patzer

Love Need

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

- Aaron Sorkin

Couple Weeks

There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

- Aaron Spelling

I Think Some

I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

- Abbie Cornish

Through Means

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

- Abby Wambach

Cops Cop

I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.

- Abhishek Bachchan

Critics Criticise

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

- Abhishek Bachchan

Racism Hatred

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Logical Sought

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Been I Write

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

- Abraham Verghese

Think I Think

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

- Adam Arkin

Sense Of Humor Hire

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

- Adam Carolla

Think I Think

The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

- Adam Carolla

Spirit Principle

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

- Adam Clarke

Government Records

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

- Adam Cohen

Most Badly

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

- Adam Cohen

Art Think

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

- Adam Davidson

Beginning Like

I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

- Adam DeVine

Some Albums

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

- Adam Duritz

Some Interviewing

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

- Adam Garcia

Emotions Rob

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

- Adam Grant

Overcome Part

Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.

- Adam Hamilton

Doing Act

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

- Adam Hamilton

Love Became

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

- Adam Levine

Country German

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

- Adam Mansbach

Been Copied

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

- Adam McKay

Always Some

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

- Adam McKay

Always Audition

I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

- Adam Pally

Doing I Think

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

- Adam Sandler

Doing I Think

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

- Adam Sandler

Argument Bad

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

- Adam Sandler

Small Think

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

- Adam Savage

I Think Scorsese

I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.

- Adam Scott

Star Flaming

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

- Adam Weishaupt

Give Which

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

- Adam Weishaupt

Which Means

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

- Adam Weishaupt

Laws Code

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

- Adam Weishaupt

Some TV

I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason they shoot it with a 35mm camera or a 4K camera, and they just put it on the TV as if that's the way it would look - it always takes me out of it by putting a filter on certain things. If it's too high quality, you're never gonna buy it.

- Adam Wingard

Young Away

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

- Adepero Oduye

Quiet Places

In quiet places, reason abounds.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Think United States

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Love Country

The love, adulation, and warmth that I got from India is the reason why I chose this country.

- Adnan Sami

I Am Chief

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

- Adoniram Judson

Became Dad

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Some Comic Books

Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

- Adrian Tomine

Always Ignored

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

- Agatha Christie

Woman Which

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

- Agnes Smedley

Regret Behind

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

- Agnetha Faltskog

Find Will

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

- Ahmed Chalabi

Sacrifice Breeze

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

- Aime Cesaire

About Part

Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?

- Aimee Mullins

Which Searcher

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

- Al Capp

Politics Thought

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

- Al Franken

Thread Boundary

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

- Al Gore

Practice Compete

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

- Al Kaline

Anybody Shop

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

- Al Madrigal

Think Other

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.

- Al Roker

Education Suburbs

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

- Al Sharpton

Extremism Muslim

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

Harm Too

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

- Alain de Botton

Through Otherwise

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

- Alain de Botton

Increasingly

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

- Alain de Botton

Books Good Reason

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

- Alain de Botton

Marry Some

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

- Alain de Botton

Through Very

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

- Alain de Botton

Better Longer

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

- Alan Ball

Sometimes Unable

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

- Alan Bennett

Doing Some

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

- Alan Dale

Sabbath Saturday

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

- Alan Dershowitz

Love My Life

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

- Alan Dershowitz

Been Some

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

- Alan Jackson

Doing Bother

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

- Alan Lewis

Other Types

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

- Alan Moore

Other Genera

In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

- Alan Stern

Doing Spent

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

- Alan Vega

Early Days Reed

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

- Alan Vega

Wealth Think

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

- Alan Watts

Want Go

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

- Alan Watts

Very Concerned

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

- Alanis Morissette

Some Vampires

I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it.

- Alaya Dawn Johnson

Always Stories

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

- Alber Elbaz

Movie Before

You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

- Albert Brooks

Own Feels

If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

- Albert Brooks

Other Some

I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.

- Albert Brooks

Thought Some

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

- Albert Camus

Feel Fertile

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

- Albert Camus

Always Which

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

- Albert Claude

Important Existing

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

- Albert Einstein

Time Happen

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

- Albert Einstein

Strength Soul

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

- Albert Einstein

Always Some

I've always had Paul Smith wallets for some reason.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

Immortality Which

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

- Albert J. Nock

Questioning Divine

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

- Albert Pike

Begins Exhausted

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

- Albert Pike

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