#reason

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#batting #because #brilliant #discovered #formula

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#issued #may #nature #only #our

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#energy #exploration #no reason #reason #support

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. ↗

— Chris Martin

#bad #had #listen #parents #people

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#behind #doubled #federal #federal level #last

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say— I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful. You are not in a position to know everything That people say or do, or what they feel: Your temper terrifies them—everyone Will tell you only what you like to hear. ↗

— Sophocles

#pride #reason #men

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlightenment #error #fallibility #humanity #humility

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#box #box office #buying #each #everything

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#attacks #bush #enter #even #fourth

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#after #anyone #commits #constitution #could