“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.” WorldDoeStatesReasonGovernmentUnitedUnited States Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.” WorldArtReasonPoliticalSocialConnectionsNotionAutonomy Author:Thom Mayne
“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksReasonTalkingEuropeWell BeingPotDividesCartoonPakistanTurkeysIdeologicalBoilingMuslim World Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.” WorldReasonSpaceCreativeOppositesCerebralYangCreative Space Author:Kal Penn
“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.” ThinkingWorldReasonChristianPoliticalPartyLibertyBoysDangerousRepublicanTaxesGolfRadioDumbCorporateRacistPantsCheatEconomistBullyDeafConvenienceFundamentalistSwampsDevelopersFaith BasedMidgetNihilistMisanthropicSweatshopsTycoonsShills Author:Garrison Keillor
“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.” WorldNeedsWritingReasonCommonOne ThingAlternativesReason WhyNovelists Author:John Fowles
“Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?” PeopleWorldFeelsReasonMinutesMarriedSmall Business Author:Mikhail Prokhorov
“There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.” WorldReasonPlenty Author:Jose Saramago
“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.” PeopleWorldMadeReasonPastEnergyLinesNegativeDependentShort LifePhysical HealthNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.” WorldReasonHumanityDarknessBuddhismBehaviorEnlightenmentBackwardsBrightnessAbnormal Author:Frederick Lenz
“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.” PeopleWorldTwoReasonHelpingPoliticalPovertyProgramRegardVarietyDividedCampsLearning Experience Author:Barney Frank
“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldIdeasReasonChurchUnderstoodHollywoodAncientFeaturesMinorsDeitiesPublic LifeScientologyAncient World Author:Lawrence Wright
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.” WorldBookRealReasonPlayMomentsAbleThreeWishGrowsEnvironmentPiecesTvsShapesHundredIncrediblesSeedsArguingColourDimensionsThank GodBeatenTornOrchestraSymphonyClawsScepticismKnowledge And PowerThree DimensionsSymphony Orchestras Author:Ray Bradbury
“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.” PeopleWorldInspirationalLooksReasonShowsSeemsWatchesFocusThis WorldParticularInspirational LifeTvsBuddhismBelieverNewspapersTv Shows Author:Frederick Lenz
“The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.” WorldNeedsReasonStoriesFeelingsHandsSoundKnownMessagesUltimateProsperityLimitationRememberedReason WhyContentmentDictatorSnaps Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.” KnowsWorldWayDoeImportantReasonHandsGrowsSecretExistenceTreeIgnoranceRootsProfoundSeedsCirclesAbsurdExplanationPawsDeliriumSproutsExtremityNauseaRotation Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.” IfsWorldMindSoulReasonHeavenFeltSpaceRaceBrainSilenceKnowingHeardStrangeEarsDown AndBoxesFinishedMy SoulBrokeLiftsFuneralBootsBellsSolitaryNumbPlungeTollsTreading Author:Andrew Solomon
“Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.” WorldMatterReasonCircumstancesLosingNo Matter WhatFaithfulnessImpart Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?” IfsWorldYearsReasonHappensWould BeMotherReligiousStrangeMomAtheistMy MomNineNine Years Author:Tarsem Singh
“If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.” IfsWorldLooksCountryReasonNextPracticeFocusEnvironmentalAround The WorldWorriedMealsOver YouShelter Author:John S. Watson
“But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.” PeopleIfsWorldReasonHellNewsEarsSeriesFeaturesBoxingWorld SeriesBoxing Matches Author:Roone Arledge
“America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.” WorldShouldCountryReasonCareAmericaTechnologyDoctorsMedicineMedicalHealth CareNo ReasonHospitalsNurseBreakthroughBreak ThroughMedical CareDoctors And NursesBest MedicalMedical TechnologyMedical Breakthroughs Author:Bill Frist
“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.” MenWorldLoveHumansReasonWholeLove IsObjectsEmbraceFacultyRestrictionOrientation Book:Sane Society Ils 252 Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.” MenWorldLifeShouldHumansPersonsDoeReasonMomentsExistenceKnowingFoolPureSelfishnessReasonableTraitsFinitePropensityExpanse Author:Derek R. Audette
“I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.” WorldHeartWarCountryReasonAmericaLostHeavenPoorMy HeartBattleWeakKingdomsDestroyedHeavenlyOppressedCitizenshipNationalityKingdom Of HeavenPersecutedWrong Reasons Author:David Berg
“Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.” WorldReasonFeltTreeParticularDirectPlantBoundsIllWoodsForestsMysteriousMeaning Of LifeAweClosestEmbodimentDeviationAwe Inspiring Author:Carl Jung
“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.” WorldNeedsMeanDoeStillsReasonWholeUseLyingPurposeOrderNaturalWalksCreationLessonsGoodnessRemainsWineEnvironmentalDelightSomewhere ElsePietyMushrooms Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.” WorldYearsSaidReasonWould BeAbleNextDifficultNaturalPlanetsDegreesYears AgoDecadesArguingGlobal WarmingQuartersEquilibriumVariability Author:James Hansen
“One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.” WorldWayReasonEmotionThis WorldFindingsBasesSmarter Author:David Brooks