#reason

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#principles #reason #age

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#athletes #audition #believe #classroom #college

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#admittedly #claim #great #grounds #highest

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#being #determining #earth #heavenly #him

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. ↗

— Moby

#find #i #live #myself #reason

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#addition #been #cbs #chairman #i

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#any #blanket #control #doomed #effort

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#available #church #culture #editorials #general

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#being #certainly #great #his #known

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems. ↗

— George Oppen

#derived #discrete #each #empirically #fragmentary