Because Quotes

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.