Reasoning Quotes (5334 Quotes)

Obviously, his status is very much up in the air right now. For whatever reason, after a prolonged period of running the swelling returns. He gets the fluid taken out, he gets treatment, he looks back to normal, he resumes running and the swelling returns. Obviously, this injury has been one that has not healed.

In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

I played the last five games (with the injury) and the doctor was saying I could take the last game off, but there was no reason.

One of the reasons is we're a commuter school. Schools with more people living on campus have a much tougher problem.

I think he needs to do it for two good reasons. It will invigorate the Republican base, which he sorely needs to do if he has any chance to win the special election. And it sends a positive message to the donor community that he's not going to cut and run.

We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.

One of the reasons adults buy cell phones for the first time is in the event of an emergency, you have a way to talk to someone. Fear is a powerful thing. I do believe that a lot of parents are going to find this somewhat compelling.

This is not a political issue affecting our relations with the United States as both countries are one in the search for truth and justice. Let us keep our emotions at bay and allow the light of reason and fact to unravel the truth.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

The result is disappointing for two reasons. One is that the Focus is a brand-new design, so Ford had every opportunity to design the bumpers to do a better job of reducing damage. The other reason is that the predecessor model, the Escort, had an illustrious early history of bumper performance.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot that's one of the reasons France banned it.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

I think one of the reasons I was initially interested was because it's a physical, non-subjective competition. I mentioned it to a few friends and they said, 'Melinda, you're not going to make it, you're not going to be able to do that,' and it made me mad. I took it as a challenge.

For that reason, as the representative of the homeless, the inundated, the destroyed and the dead, we ask you to give your full support to the formation of an independent, non-partisan commission,

Yet both parties' campaign strategists believe Latino party affiliations and voting patterns can be changed. The reason Democrats and Republicans will concentrate on Latinos is that they are in some ways a swing vote, ... Both Bush and Gore can try to make some inroads into the other candidate's Latino base.

In fact, that's one of the reasons that the team, most likely, was let go last June, is that we had differences of opinion on that.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

One of the reasons we're concerned about the CAP is its proven ability to move species around. It moves species around even through what appears to be insurmountable barriers.

I guess that gives umpires a reason to do whatever the hell they want to do. It's a sad day for me. ... I don't get it. I'm very bitter about the situation.

Imagination cannot make fools wise but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable

The Rocket is close to his family. He really enjoys spending a lot of time with his kids. I think that's part of the reason why when he came back, he came back to Houston. He has the luxury of being at home.

Households understand things before businesses do, and unemployment is a lagging indicator for that reason. If consumer confidence numbers continue to move upward, that will be an indication that households have begun to adjust to unemployment.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Yes they are and that is one of the reasons they Apple are trying to be very quiet about what they are doing. Other companies are looking for any information on Apple to understand if they are competitors or partners.

What's really common is that all these people are where they don't want to be. They're suing someone whom they, for some reason or another, had a good relationship with. Now the relationship is broken down so severely that all they can do is to take this person to court to try to get their attention. It just manifests itself in the form of a lawsuit.

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

We had great scoring chances and their goalie was great. Maybe we didn't have that edge today. But I have to finish those chances. This was the reason I was sent down (by Pittsburgh) to Wilkes-Barre. I had chances to tie the game, to win the game. I gotta do it.

I would give something up if it was a matter of life or death, but for financial reasons, no.

I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be ready. I don't think about the back injury. The bullpen today, everything went well.

Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

I think the players realized that (advertiser reluctance). That's one of reasons they agreed to the stiffer policy.

The factors cited by card issuers are very broad. It appears that anyone - not just people in financial difficulties - could be subjected to a much higher rate for very insignificant reasons.

We're trying to get claims though that aren't being covered for a variety of reasons. And they just can't handle it. It's too much too soon.

That was one of the reasons why we won that first quarter, ... Doug was running the offense a lot of the time, and his on-the-ball defense is always good.

He's good at raising money, and that's part of the reason he was elected president. If he comes to visit, it's going to throw the focus on what's going on back in Washington. But the election is months away we expect him to be more strategic in where he visits closer to the election.

There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.