#reason

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. ↗

— Toby Young

#bond #call #cat #hasn #i

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. ↗

— Toby Young

#deliver #intake #no reason #reason #why

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#case #commercial #follow-up #geared #las

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#communicating #creation #god #him #his

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#desires #diligent #himself #love #loves

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dangerous #dangers #fishermen #found #know

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#death #had #i #if i could #liberty

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#belongs #end #freedom #goodness #hurry

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. ↗

— William Warburton

#ridicule #test #truth