Good Reason Quotes

299 quotes by 269 authors

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will… — Wendell Berry
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. — Alain de Botton
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never… — Giacomo Casanova
I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm. — Lamar S. Smith
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding — Nicolas Gomez Davila
She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle… — Jim Shepard
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of… — Maggie Gallagher
Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good… — Barack Obama
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed.… — Howard Martin
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a… — Tom Weir
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. — Robert Foster Bennett
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't… — John Legend
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not… — Samuel Johnson
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. — Michel de Montaigne
I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because… — Robert Rauschenberg
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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