#reasons

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ↗

— Albert Barnes

#appear #be thankful #dark #even #find

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #interest #lots #positive #reasons

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. ↗

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#bottom #ever #found #had #i

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

#made #painful #reality #reasons #too

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#among #art #because #feel #feels

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. ↗

— Steve Israel

#men #more #reasons #rely #retirement

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box. ↗

— Sue Johanson

#kids #many #out #put #question

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches