#reason

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. ↗

— Teri Garr

#david #i #letterman #marriage #obvious

Content is often the reason users come to your site. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#content #often #reason #site #users

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#living #needs #only #pretexts #reasons

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#because #everything #give #hope #hopeless

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. ↗

— Doug Larson

#choice #generations #only #other #people

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#dance #dancing #feel #fun #giving

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#contingent #fact #impossible #kinds #necessary