George Orwell Quotes

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

There is a reason for everything.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

There's always a reason for everything.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

Every why has a wherefore.

There is nothing without reason.

Every why hath a wherefore.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

I'm here to make sense.