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Reasons Quotes (page 99)

But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
Ginny, listen . . . I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it? J. K. Rowling
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure? Marguerite Duras
Eduardo Galeano quote: "If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been..."
If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason Eduardo Galeano
John Irving quote: "Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for..."
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. John Irving
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. Stephen King
...they ate the apple, and knew good and evil, and became 'as gods.' And they still go on eating it. But little children have not eaten anything and are not yet guilty of anything...If they, too, suffer terribly on earth, it is, of course, for their fathers; they are punished for their fathers who ate the apple--but that is reasoning from another world; for the human heart here on earth it is incomprehensible. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Terry Goodkind quote: "Wizard's Sixth RuleThe only sovereign you can allow to rule..."
Wizard's Sixth RuleThe only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. Terry Goodkind
Faith is seen when one man relies upon another because of a knowledge of the superiority of the other. This is a higher faith, the faith which knows the reason for its dependence and acts upon it. Charles Spurgeon
Leo Tolstoy quote: "But the law of loving others could not be discovered by..."
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. Leo Tolstoy
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? Emile M. Cioran
But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us. Haruki Murakami
I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is 'Don't overcoach. Bill Bowerman
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.... Madeleine L'Engle

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