Because Quotes

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.