Quotes with reasons

Quotes 41 till 60 of 135.

  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bill Maris 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.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Anna Quindlen Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Billy Corgan In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Brad Carson In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Brenda Blethyn It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Hannah More Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • B. D. Wong Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Eli Cass Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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  • Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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