Quotes with non-reason

Quotes 521 till 540 of 744.

  • Bill Medley The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ben Folds The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Doug Larson The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Will Rogers The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Lord George Byron The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Frank A. Clark The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • M. Rutherford The reason why people so of ten disagree in discussion is that they sar what they do not think.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Walter Bagehot The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Samuel Smiles The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Burton Richter The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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