Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.’
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
You just have to do the things you love, and if you’re pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you’ll get what you want.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
If you’re hit with a lawsuit that’s untrue and the reasons you’re hit with it aren’t clear to you, there’s a very big inclination on people’s part to want to take responsibility for it – that this must be happening because I’m a terrible person, I did something, and I’m getting repaid for it.
There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn’t going to hang my hat up on my musical career.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Actors make choices for different reasons.
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It’s meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One – I had left the band on the White Album.
You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it’s like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that person was ever really in my life.’ But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.
I don’t care what people do. I don’t care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
These core principles – helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality – are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
In examining the CIA’s past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
People might call me a liar for this, but I want a fast teammate, I think for two reasons: it’s always going to get more out of yourself, and it’s always going to be a more true evaluation of where you stand.
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I’ve done very well!
I always told myself never to have a plan B – I feel like that’s also one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here.
The main reasons for the growth and institutionalization of corruption are: a culture of secrecy with lack of transparency, and weak institutions for securing the accountability of public servants, such as the Vigilance bodies, the criminal investigative agencies and the judiciary.
I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
I still bump into Spurs fans who say: ‘Why did you have to go?’ I say back: ‘What more could I have done?’ I talk to them and I think they appreciate I had good reasons.
I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.
The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we’re soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.
If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.
OK, so I’m not famous for the right reasons.
Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on ‘World War Z’ was because I’m a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
I’m inclined to think that, because it’s such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it’s such a wearying life, you’ve got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
One of the reasons I wrote ‘Airborn’ was that I’d fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the ’20s and ’30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that’s more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it’s like, ‘You’re wrong, I’m just a skateboarder. How can I help you?’
Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons… Put out a question box.
And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn’t had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
That’s one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston – to contend and win a championship, especially with the history of the Celtics and what they stand for.
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama’s extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
I’m overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.
It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don’t really comprehend.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it’s arbitrary. If you’re comfortable with your belief you don’t need to convince other people to agree with you.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don’t know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.
I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
