#reason

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#difficult #easier #every #every day #from time to time

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. ↗

— Scott Adams

#changes #drawings #fresh #keeps #like

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#administration #clinton #clinton administration #community #counterintelligence

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. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#care #come #developed #fat #guy

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ↗

— Aristotle

#aim #all things #art #been #choice

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. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#boxing #boxing match #cover #doing #ears

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. ↗

— David Attenborough

#climate #economic #economic situation #give #give me

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#i #instinct #man #rather #reason

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two. ↗

— Christian Bale

#after #because #clear-cut #divides #fine