| Marcus Tullius Cicero |  Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Margaret Atwood | A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood |
| Margaret Carlson | Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
Margaret Carlson |
| Margaret Cavendish | Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Margaret Cavendish |
| Margaret J. Wheatley | Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley |
| Margot Kidder | They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
Margot Kidder |
| Marianne Moore | I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore |
| Marie de France | Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
Marie de France |
| Marilu Henner | The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.
Marilu Henner |
| Mario Lemieux | Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.
Mario Lemieux |
| Marion Jones | You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.
Marion Jones |
| Marion Milner | I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Marion Milner |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Mark-Paul Gosselaar | I'm always worried about my money for some reason.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar |
| Marlee Matlin | The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.
Marlee Matlin |
| Marlon Brando | The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando |
| Marquis De Vauvenargues | Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues |
| Marsha Sinetar | Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar |
| Martha Graham | Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham |
| Martin Bashir | This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
Martin Bashir |
