#reason

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#great #i #life #my life #number

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#instructions #like #many #poems #read

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction. ↗

— Iris Chang

#assaults #bothered #civil #civil liberties #fiction

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#finds #her #justifies #last #looks

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#am #before #died #father #him

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#get together #go #good #good opportunity #good reason

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could