Quotes of: Good-reason Keyword

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

George P. Shultz

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

Julian Baggini

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Joe Cocker

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Jeff Smith

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

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

Richard Stallman

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

Salma Hayek

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Sarah Vowell

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Humphrey Bogart

Don't make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.

Unarine Ramaru

The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is not utopian. It is merely to provide good reasons for being an atheist. … My object is to show that atheism is a rational position and t...

Atheism: A Philosophical Justification

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is...

The Age of Reason

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths sh...

One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good ches...

Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

The Subtle Knife

Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn’t believe in cunnilingus...

Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed