T Quotes
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“The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'”
“The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.”
“The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.”
“The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the way you are calculating your numbers doesn't make any sense. Sometimes it's best to get up, take a walk, and revisit your calculations later. I have returned to my work many times and said: "Why the hell would I calculate it like that?"”
“The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.”
“The reason gender based violence wont end soon is because people are fighting people they don't like. They are not fighting the problem which is gender based violence and are not fighting the people who are wrong which are offenders, because when it is done by their favorites they decide to be mute instead of reprimanding their favorites.”
“The reason girls can't find a good guy is because they look in the wrong places. Go to a library. Guys at a party are just looking for the next girl to fuck.”
“The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.”
“The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.”
Source: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
“the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.”
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
“The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.”
“The reason gold-diggers trivialize
relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
“The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.”
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”
“The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.”
“The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.”
“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.”
Source: Rules For Old Men Waiting
“The reason he had trouble opening up to her was simply because he was a guy, and Mitsuha was a girl.
The same went for Sayaka.
There was a wall of feelings between two people of different genders.”
Source: 你的名字 Another Side:Earthbound
“The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.”
“The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help.” I drop my head. “They want to be seen, but at the same time, they’re terrified of what it is people are going to see.”
Source: The Paradox Hotel
“The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.”
“The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.”
“The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.”
“The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.”
Source: Why I am a Christian: A Clear; Compelling Account Of The Basis Of The Author'S Belief
“The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.”
“The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.”
“The reason I am single is that I gave my all to people who are not giving me a chance.”
“The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?”
“The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”
Source: The Storyteller
“The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes”
“The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.”
“The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.”
“The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.”
“The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.”
“The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.”
“THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.”
“The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.”
“The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.”
“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.”
“The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.”
Source: The Roald Dahl Treasury
“The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important.”
Source: Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
“The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?”
“The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.”
“The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.”
“The reason I despised families with many children in particular was because each child they forced into the world tended to force even more, as did each subsequent generation, which resulted in an exponential growth of new human beings, none of whom asked to be born.
As the philosopher David Benatar has pointed out, assuming each couple has three children, their total descendants over ten generations amount to 88,572 new people. Now that’s a lot of unnecessary human beings! A lot of unnecessary pain and suffering! A lot of unnecessary British tourists!”
Source: I Hate Traveling
“The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.”
“The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.”