Unspoken Reasons Quotes

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.

Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.

Everyone wonders why I talk junk, but I was doomed from the beginning.