#reason

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. ↗

— Albert Barnes

#appear #be thankful #dark #even #find

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#committee #consumer #efforts #fight #financial

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#light #minds #opinion #public #public opinion

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#i #ideas #into #may #me

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#explanation #justification #reason

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#first #first time #ideological #instead #journalistic

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#educate #end #fixed #function #further

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. ↗

— Jack London

#add #beauty #belongs #book #estate

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. ↗

— John Irving

#match #old #reasons #say #trophies

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. ↗

— John Irving

#constantly #necessity #no reason #reason #revise