It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in. . . farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place that has experienced both persecution and destruction The reason Nagasaki is famous, is because it is rebuilt, because it has always survived.
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.
Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.
Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfieldwhether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end. . . THIS is achievement
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.
Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
Life's temporary for a reason; it gets boring after a while.
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.
