| Louise Fletcher |  That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.
Louise Fletcher |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| lunatic | It is a new experience to me to find a lunatic who talk philosophy, and reason so sound. |
| Lyman Abbott | Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
Lyman Abbott |
| Lyman Abbott | The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Lyman Abbott |
| Lyn Nofziger | A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
Lyn Nofziger |
| Lyn Nofziger | The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger |
| Lynn Fontanne | One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
Lynn Fontanne |
| madness | His madness foiled his reason, and a puzzled look spread over his face as, shaking his head with a decision which I had but seldom seen in him. |
| Maggie Gallagher | Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher |
| Maggie Gallagher | 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 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| maids | But if it were the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in their place? There could be no possible reason. |
| Marcel Pagnol | The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol |
| Marcus Aurelius | Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius |
| Marcus Aurelius | Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius |
| Marcus Fabius Quintilian | For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
