#reasons

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#color #hate #much #reasons #skin

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ↗

— Jay Leno

#any #cannot #court #find #men

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#justice #moral #must #only #poverty

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#built #community #conflict #development #east

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work. ↗

— Nia Long

#because #being #break #did #down

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#backward #edge #faith #fall #forward

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. ↗

— James MacArthur

#course #explain #fails #give #once

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?' ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#anything #central #could #fact #got

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aesthetic #intellectual #move #physical #reasons