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Reason Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from…
- The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
- I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.…
- We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one…
- Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
- ... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough