#reason

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' ↗

— Dave Barry

#achieved #full #had #human #human race

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#exactly #gone #gone with the wind #i #just

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#claude #connection #like #live #make

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#decision #deep #desire #film #how

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#both #choices #entitled #holding #left

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy. ↗

— Janis Ian

#anything #doing #else #i #i think

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it. ↗

— Scott Ian

#fine #get #i #know #once

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#education #judgement #mentoring #reasoning #education

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery