Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. – Ashley Montagu
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses… to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. – Ariel Sharon
Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn’t have to grow up. – Bernard Sumner
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason. – Billy Collins
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason. – Arlen Specter
I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored. – Armand Deutsch
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. – Arthur Goldberg
Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business. – Bernie Sanders
There’s a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool. – Alec Berg
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. – Brian Ferneyhough
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
I was always depressed growing up. There wasn’t a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it. – Amanda Hocking
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. – Anais Nin
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. – Caleb Cushing
He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. – Aristotle
The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach to regulation is needed. – Ben Bernanke
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. – Allan Bloom
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven’t been able to let out, and I’m able to let them out through the screen and this medium. – Charlotte Rampling
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. – Ayn Rand
That’s the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That’s the only reason I’m here. – Allen Iverson
