Algernon Sydney | The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
Algernon Sydney |
Alice Miller | The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Alice Miller |
Alison Bechdel | For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Alison Bechdel |
Alison Bechdel | I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
Alison Bechdel |
Allan Bloom | Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom |
Allan Bloom | Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom |
Allan Bloom | The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom |
Allen Tate | For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
Allen Tate |
Allen Tate | Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
Allen Tate |
Alma Gluck | The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
Alma Gluck |
although | My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
Oksana Baiul
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Alton Brown | My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Alton Brown |
Alvin Ailey | Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
Alvin Ailey |
Ambrose Bierce | Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce |
Amelia E. Barr | Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Amelia E. Barr |
Amelia Earhart | Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
Amelia Earhart |
Amy Lowell | For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell |
Anais Nin | Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin |
Anatoly Chubais | For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Anatoly Chubais |
Andre Gide | Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide |