Good Reason Quotes

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett

Good, Truth, Lie

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

Good, Real, Two

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Money, Men

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Human, Reason

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, War, Nothing

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 all.
Maggie Gallagher

Love, Good, Reason

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 escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

Good, Bad, Past

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese

Good, Reason, Lacks

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Jealous, Reason

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld

Good, Government, Before

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
Jerry Seinfeld

Work, Good, Anger

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
Hugh Jackman

Good, Around, Coffee

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
Amelia Earhart

Good, Reason, Once

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 through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Through, Reason

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
Ron Wyden

Good, Government, Law

God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.'
Paul Feig

Time, Good, God

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
Ben Barnes

Good, Reason, Making

Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Laurence Olivier

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris

Good, Reason, Writer

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Theodore Sturgeon

Good, Words, Reason

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

Good, Philosophy, Reason

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
Famke Janssen

Good, Money, Movies

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
Rick Baker

Time, Good, Money

This is why I personally care about diversity: it's the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it's not actually as meritocratic as it could be. And I believe that is exactly what is happening in Silicon Valley.
Eric Ries

Good, Care, Why

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
Seth Godin

Good, Book, Real

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
Jane Byrne

Good, Proud, Reason

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Nina Bawden

Life, Age, Good

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 that means that the picture is being painted predigested.
Robert Rauschenberg

Good, Reason, Means

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
Luke Scott

Good, God, Sports

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