I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.
Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.
Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.
To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.
Talk to the man with the reasons why.
The purpose of man's life. . . is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
There are reasons, and then there are excuses.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.