Quotes of Justification - somelinesforyou

“ There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ I make no apologies for that - it was a joke. ”

- George Clooney

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. ”

- William Blake

“ I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do. ”

- Claude Williams

“ Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one. ”

- Unknown

“ The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ We were working to shut down a gambling casino, and I make no apologies. ”

- Ralph Reed

“ I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. ”

- Corey Pavin

“ A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ”

- Guillaume Apollinaire

“ Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. ”

- Mario Vargas Llosa

“ There is a good reason they cal these ceremonies 'commencement exercises' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there. ”

- John Grisham

“ An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Eloquence may set fire to reason. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period. ”

- Frederick Frieseke

“ Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. ”

- George Orwell

“ From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. ”

- Jack Benny
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