#reason

Nobody does anything for one reason. ↗

— Russell Banks

#does #nobody #reason

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#day #i #one day #reason #voice

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#closed #company #economic #environmental #last

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. ↗

— Lewis Black

#allows #crap #daily #golf #i

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#ball #because #bob #burnett #carol

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#attack #business #country #exporting #fear

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#followed #independently #instinct #reason #very

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. ↗

— Evan Davis

#adhere #behaviour #cheat #conform #doing

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#economic #economic activity #given #jobs #level