#reason

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? ↗

— Adam Sandler

#doing #else #feel #friends #girlfriend

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#elephant #games #had #i #kids

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#being #cause #get #hear #hear music

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#full #i #movie #never #personal

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#calm #children #hear #important #keep

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#always #back #comes #doing #down

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#always #back #comes #down #given

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#fun #guitar #helps #i #i do