#reason

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#back #called #excused #few #full

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ↗

— Tony Greig

#coming #contract #end #had #happen

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you. ↗

— Ken Follet

#asking #established #lie #man #no point

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#another #invent #make #party #pretext

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#given #god #kings #me #princes

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. ↗

— Christopher Smart

#flowers #peculiarly #poetry #reasoning #sound

We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage. ↗

— John W. Snow

#eye #far #global #inflation #keep

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Georg Solti

#always #am #any #friendly #friends