Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it’s another reason I’m interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon. – Scott Derrickson
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren’t singers, the girls who just tell me that I’m an inspiration to them, for one reason or another. – Wanda Jackson
I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren’t very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up. – Sarah Bolger
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. – Stephen Fry
I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it. – Taylor Swift
Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to ‘right’ these ‘wrongs.’ – Srikumar Rao
The reason I’ve gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with. – Shelly Burch
There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, ‘Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn’t it?’ And for whatever reason, it just doesn’t catch on. So you never know going in. – Timothy Hutton
Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It’s about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids. – Scott Howell
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. – Thomas Paine
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. – William Drummond
I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn’t deserve it. – Stephen Bannon
I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly. – Sylvester McCoy
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it’s going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed. – Stephen Cambone
No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people. – Sam Kean
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. – William Dean Howells
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. – Waylon Jennings
The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion. – Stephen Kinzer
Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason. – Vincent McNabb
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle
There’s a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you’d grow weary. – Trevor Dunn