Quotes about Reasons why (307 quotes)

Talk to the man with the reasons why. Votes: 3

Taylor Swift

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Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive. Votes: 3

Terrell Owens

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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. Votes: 3

George Eliot

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Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try Votes: 3

Hilary Duff

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There are TWO reasons why you'll be blessed; For giving and for forgiving Votes: 3

Constance Chuks Friday

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People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. Votes: 3

Megan Fox

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There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear. Votes: 3

Wally Amos

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Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us. Votes: 3

Luc de Clapiers

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Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High)) Votes: 3

Jason Mraz

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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them. Votes: 3

Betty Grable

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There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can. Votes: 3

Kara Goucher

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There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now. Votes: 3

Shemp Howard

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards. Votes: 3

Terry Pratchett

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There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it. Votes: 3

Russell Chatham

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We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be. Votes: 3

Kim Young-ha

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Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. Votes: 3

Catherine Opie

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There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants. Votes: 3

Selena Gomez

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Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching. Votes: 3

Alfred Armand Montapert

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One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear. Votes: 3

Robert Kiyosaki

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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. Votes: 3

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them. Votes: 3

Anonymous

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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't. Votes: 3

Andy Roddick

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A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. Votes: 3

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think. Votes: 3

John Selden

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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. Votes: 3

Charles Darwin

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Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this wonât work. We will never work. Votes: 3

Abbi Glines

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Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. Votes: 3

Margery Wilson

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Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks! Votes: 3

John Patrick Hickey

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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did. Votes: 3

Zelda Fitzgerald

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There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. Votes: 3

Benjamin Disraeli

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There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. Votes: 3

Gunter Grass

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Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. Votes: 3

Eleanor Catton

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One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. Votes: 3

C. S. Lewis

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Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. Votes: 3

Ralph Nader

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Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran. Votes: 3

Marco Rubio

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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. Votes: 3

James C. Collins

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Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. Votes: 3

Ralph Marston

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There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into. Votes: 3

Alden Ehrenreich

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I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it. Votes: 3

Kelly Clarkson

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Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months. Votes: 3

Glenn McGrath

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The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable. Votes: 3

Clayton Christensen

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That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter. Votes: 3

Sheldon B. Kopp

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More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy. Votes: 3

Robert Kiyosaki

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. Votes: 3

Anna Quindlen

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One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation. Votes: 3

Len Elmore

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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. Votes: 3

Henry Miller

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One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing. Votes: 3

Taraka Larson

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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. Votes: 3

John Fowles

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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region. Votes: 3

Igor Luksic

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One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there. Votes: 3

Ronald Blythe

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I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there. Votes: 3

Garth Brooks

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There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't. Votes: 3

Peter Drucker

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The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. Votes: 3

Paul Shaffer

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There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives. Votes: 3

Evangeline Lilly

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One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice. Votes: 3

Steven Seagal

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Votes: 3

Martha Graham

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. Votes: 3

John Selden

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There are only two reasons why a woman doesn't pick up her phone. She either likes him too much or hates him too much. Votes: 3

Yoon Se-ah

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One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes. Votes: 3

Afrojack

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There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. Votes: 3

Rush Limbaugh

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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government. Votes: 3

Nancy Astor

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One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. Votes: 3

Robert Fisk

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One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things. Votes: 3

Jada Pinkett Smith

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When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed. Votes: 3

Gloria Vanderbilt

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Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth. Votes: 3

Al Gore

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There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them. Votes: 3

Bill Klem

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It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not. Votes: 3

L. Ron Hubbard

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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader. Votes: 3

Harriet Harman

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There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know? Votes: 3

Ethan Coen

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I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe. Votes: 3

Murray Gell-Mann

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There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say. Votes: 3

Russell Baker

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In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! Votes: 3

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper! Votes: 3

Rush Limbaugh

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One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away. Votes: 3

Chris Hardwick

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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision. Votes: 3

Chuck Schumer

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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision. Votes: 3

Charles Schumer

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They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap. Votes: 3

Rhianna Pratchett

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Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. Votes: 3

Daniel Gilbert

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I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. Votes: 3

Kelli O'Hara

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. Votes: 3

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them. Votes: 3

William Empson

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The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. Votes: 3

Benjamin Disraeli

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There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams. Votes: 3

Shannon Miller

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Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis. Votes: 3

Ali Vincent

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We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. Votes: 3

Albert Barnes

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All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why. Votes: 3

Marcus Buckingham

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Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes. Votes: 3

Madonna Ciccone

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There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty. Votes: 3

Jeb Bush

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There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do. Votes: 3

Tiffany Reisz

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A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too. Votes: 3

Jason Blum

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Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out. Votes: 3

Shahid Afridi

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We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. Votes: 3

Albert C. Barnes

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Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why. Votes: 3

Martin Lindstrom

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Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. Votes: 3

James MacArthur

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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. Votes: 3

Mignon McLaughlin

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There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated. Votes: 3

Andrew Keen

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I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance. Votes: 3

Harvey Mackay

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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning. Votes: 3

Alan Lightman

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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer. Votes: 3

Scott Adams

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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. Votes: 3

Talcott Parsons

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One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. Votes: 3

Tom Stoppard

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I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental. Votes: 3

Andrew Revkin

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One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. Votes: 3

Jimenez Lai

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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist. Votes: 3

Carlton Cuse

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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. Votes: 3

Tony Campolo

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Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular. Votes: 3

Ed Stoppard

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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out. Votes: 3

Rachel Maddow

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One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair. Votes: 3

Alan Moore

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There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. Votes: 3

Suzanne Fields

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I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. Votes: 3

Lester Bangs

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Wherever You Are, Be There One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. Votes: 3

Jim Rohn

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Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka. Votes: 3

David Letterman

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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. Votes: 3

Chuck Close

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A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it. Votes: 3

Junior Seau

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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. Votes: 3

Karen Armstrong

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One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself. Votes: 3

Tibor Fischer

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One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form. Votes: 3

Katie Aselton

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Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves-and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential. Votes: 3

Grant Cardone

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One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want! Votes: 3

Martin Sorrell

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One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day. Votes: 3

Jim Rohn

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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. Votes: 3

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it. Votes: 3

Walter E. Williams

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I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on. Votes: 3

Joe Dante

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When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me " yet " the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood

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One of the reasons why Resident Evil is a very successful video game franchise, much more so than a lot of others that have fallen by the wayside, is that they have constantly evolved. Votes: 3

Paul W. S. Anderson

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There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making. Votes: 3

David Allen

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One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldnât keep on, youâll find âem. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of âem. Votes: 3

Benny Goodman

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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait. Votes: 3

Gail Collins

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The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear. Votes: 3

Frank Luntz

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I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why. Votes: 3

Jay Asher

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There are many reasons why the Republican establishment hates Donald Trump, and some of them are legitimate. I mean, a lot of people have sensible reasons for be being afraid of Trump - Republicans, conservatives. Votes: 3

Rush Limbaugh

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A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time. Votes: 3

Jeffrey Jones

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It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful Votes: 3

Zig Ziglar

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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Votes: 3

Lord Acton

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It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses. Votes: 3

Danielle Panabaker

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I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. Votes: 3

Peter Weir

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There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much. Votes: 3

Henry George

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There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place. Votes: 3

Jodie Foster

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Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. Votes: 3

John Keble

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I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat. Votes: 3

Kirstie Alley

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I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions. Votes: 3

Michael Eklund

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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly Votes: 3

Steve Wozniak

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I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. Votes: 3

Steve Wozniak

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The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed. Votes: 3

Joe Strummer

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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful. Votes: 3

Eddie Murray

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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Votes: 3

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star. Votes: 3

Karina Longworth

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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked. Votes: 3

Robert Wise

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Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them. Votes: 3

Paul Baribeau

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Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I. Votes: 3

Phil Ochs

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The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you shift that task. Votes: 3

Israelmore Ayivor

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One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you. Votes: 3

Moby

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All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith. Votes: 3

Lee Strobel

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And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront Votes: 3

Karen Armstrong

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There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home. Votes: 3

Delia Smith

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The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. Votes: 3

Niall Ferguson

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There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take. Votes: 3

A.S.A. Harrison

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It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music. Votes: 3

Todd Rundgren

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The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates. Votes: 3

Shakira

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There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character. Votes: 3

Louis J. Mordell

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You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males. Votes: 3

Francine Prose

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The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working. Votes: 3

Joe Heck

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The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make. Votes: 3

Charles M. Schwab

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The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church. Votes: 3

Darrel Ray

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There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives. Votes: 3

Francis Schaeffer

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It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile. Votes: 3

Duane Hanson

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So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most. Votes: 3

Camille Dungy

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Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't. Votes: 3

Napoleon Hill

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One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people. Votes: 3

Mark Durie

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You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction. Votes: 3

Liz Phair

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The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it! Votes: 3

Bruce Rasmussen

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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 Votes: 3

Jonah Lehrer

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One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one. Votes: 3

Daniel Goldstein

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If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts. Votes: 3

Bill Maris

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Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things Votes: 3

Isabelle Huppert

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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?' Votes: 3

Ian MacKaye

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In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can't be done. People who live with excuses have things that can't be done hovering around them all the time. Votes: 3

Mike Krzyzewski

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I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth. Votes: 3

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show. Votes: 3

Rachael Taylor

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The most disturbing part of working on all these issues is the amount of money spent by corporations to confuse, mislead and misinform the public. This is one of the reasons why we are always taking two steps forward and three steps back. Votes: 3

Laurie David

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be patient enough to identify the real reasons why you meet people, situations and moments in time or else you would be patient enough to analyze the real reasons why you missed people, situations and moments in time in regret or in wonder Votes: 3

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly. Votes: 3

Evgeny Morozov

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As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. Votes: 3

Heston Blumenthal

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As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things wont work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. Votes: 3

Heston Blumenthal

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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Strout

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I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide--the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality. Votes: 3

H. P. Lovecraft

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Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said. Votes: 3

Peter Cameron

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I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I'm surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making. Votes: 3

Rob Lowe

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Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern. Votes: 3

Joan Didion

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There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals. Votes: 3

John Tyler Bonner

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There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf. Votes: 3

Stephen Rodrick

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Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them. Votes: 3

Cornelia Fort

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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. Votes: 3

Mark Van Doren

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There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. Votes: 3

Muhammadu Buhari

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[M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do; for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it? Votes: 3

Vincent de Paul

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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. Votes: 3

William O. Douglas

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There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long. Votes: 3

Israel Zangwill

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There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal. Votes: 3

Jean Chatzky

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In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better. Votes: 3

Ichiro Suzuki

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Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married. Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to not do it. Votes: 3

Rebecca Lee

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The ones who keep giving you reasons why you won't succeed, are probably the ones who wish that you won't. Listen to your heart. Follow your dream. It is not a question whether your dream is impossible. It is a question of how badly you want it. Votes: 3

Rita Zahara

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Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. Votes: 3

Georg Solti

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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood

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With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult. Votes: 3

Matt Groening

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The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. Votes: 3

Jamie Muir

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It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible. Votes: 3

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. Votes: 3

Chad Channing

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I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that. Votes: 3

Latrell Sprewell

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As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. Votes: 3

Eric Balfour

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There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time. Votes: 3

Gian Carlo Menotti

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They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. Votes: 3

Miroslav Vitous

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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. Votes: 1

Hunter S. Thompson

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There's no reason why I should retire. Votes: 1

Rod Stewart

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I have never sought the reason why I write. Votes: 1

Nathalie Sarraute

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Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist. Votes: 1

Roberto Cavalli

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. Votes: 1

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why. Votes: 1

Zooey Deschanel

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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. Votes: 1

John Locke

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. Votes: 1

Samuel Smiles

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I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. Votes: 1

David Johansen

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Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 1

James Randolph Adams

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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing. Votes: 1

Irwin Shaw

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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. Votes: 1

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose. Votes: 1

Willie Stargell

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Votes: 1

Robert Frost

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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. Votes: 1

Andy Goldsworthy

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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. Votes: 1

Salman Rushdie

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. Votes: 1

Oscar Wilde

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You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court. Votes: 0

Marat Safin

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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do. Votes: 0

Chris Pine

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Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. Votes: 0

Denis Leary

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I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. Votes: 0

Eric Carr

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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still. Votes: 0

Whitney Otto

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101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. Votes: 0

Summersdale Publishers

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Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do. Votes: 0

Maurissa Tancharoen

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It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures Votes: 0

Geoffrey Howe

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Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business. Votes: 0

Samuel J. Palmisano

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If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place. Votes: 0

Jinxx

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The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Votes: 0

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Votes: 0

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know. Votes: 0

Billy Eichner

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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times. Votes: 0

Jackie Mason

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Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you! Votes: 0

Guy Finley

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