“If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.”

“There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons… You'll wait and wait.”

Susan Minot (1956) American author and screenwriter

“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

“I know a very good reason,' said Ainsley, 'but I don't know a very good excuse.”

William Mayne (1928–2010) English writer of children's fiction

“But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”

Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

“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 (1934) author

“People always have two reasons for doing things: a good reason and the real reason.”

Unknown author

“There’s no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.”

Rebecca Solnit book Men Explain Things To Me

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”

Junot Díaz book Drown