The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. Reggie Jackson
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. Sam Snead
The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism. Luke Scott
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.Thomas Alva Edison
The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life. Samuel R.Delany
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. Greg Maddux
The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing. Jonathan Ames
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. Johnny Weir
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. Steven Brust
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. Hal Borland
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. Lyman Abbott
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Cicero
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.' Alain de Botton