Because Quotes

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.