#reason

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way. ↗

— Martin Landau

#happen #immediate #justify #look #reason

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money. ↗

— John Landis

#i #know #me #money #need

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. ↗

— Frank Langella

#distrust #i #i think #most #reasons

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. ↗

— Doug Larson

#choice #generations #only #other #people

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#debates #deeply #embedded #expose #need

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#disinterested #fell #her #i #i think

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#everything #found #happened #happens #haven

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#any #day #fish #give #had

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving