Because Quotes

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.