Because Quotes

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.