I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen, Persuasion #Clichés #Double Standards #Empowerment
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. Erich Fromm Love #Embrace #Objects #Reason
If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines. Bruce Cameron Friendship #Reason #Species
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. Bill Cosby Hope #Die #House #Reason
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin Love #Reason #Seek #Solutions
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail. Stanley Hauerwas Hope #Fail #Living #Reason
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. River Phoenix Success #Addiction #Hands #Reason
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity. Edward de Bono Humor #Cheap #Fact #Reason
I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical. Thom Browne Humor #Irony #Love #Reason
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. Edward de Bono Humor #Attention #Process #Reason
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. Austin O'Malley Arts #Plants #Reason #Wilderness
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson Arts #Brave #Learn #Reason
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. Edward Zwick Hope #Change #Reason #Time
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. Anne Lamott Hope #Basically #Hopeless #Reason
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. Oscar Wilde Arts #Good #Reason #View
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche Love #Reason #Relationship
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Thomas Browne Humor #Men #Passion #Reason