Pastoral Resources

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

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

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.

Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.