All Quotes

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
‐‐ Peter Davison

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
‐‐ Doug Larson

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

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
‐‐ Isaac Mizrahi

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.
‐‐ Alexis Ohanian

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
‐‐ Don Rose

The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
‐‐ Jeffrey Bewkes

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
‐‐ James Baldwin

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.
‐‐ John Kitzhaber

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
‐‐ Jesse Metcalfe

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.
‐‐ Michael Redhill

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.
‐‐ Brad Thor

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.
‐‐ Mark Barrowcliffe

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.
‐‐ Andy Weir

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.
‐‐ Jerry Brown

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
‐‐ Ron Eglash

The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.
‐‐ John Logan

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
‐‐ Terrence Howard

The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient ammunition in the Quran to buttress their beliefs. The same could also, of course, be said for the Old Testament, which is full of scenes of violent death visited on the enemies of God.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.
‐‐ Tommy Bond

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
‐‐ Thomas J. Stanley

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
‐‐ Farrah Fawcett

The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.
‐‐ Takeshi Uchiyamada

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.
‐‐ Tim Pawlenty

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.
‐‐ Tim Conway

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
‐‐ Jorja Fox