#reason

The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variety. But there are also no devils, no hellfire, no wicked witches, no ghosts, no haunted houses, no daemonic possession, no bogeymen or ogres. Yes, Teddy and Dolly turn out not to be really alive. But there are warm, live, speaking, thinking, adult bedf ellows to hold, and many of us find it a more rewarding kind of love than the childish affection for stuffed toys, however soft and cuddly they may be. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#childhood #reason #love

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. ↗

— Jay Asher

#teen-suicide #thirteen-reasons-why #teen

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#anyone #arrested #basis #everyday #hardly

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#gave #god #how #i #keen

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#fat #getting #i #maybe #only

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#am #any #because #confront #directly

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things. ↗

— Rick Baker

#good reason #happens #hate #i #important

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#great #just #miracle #reasons #such