Because Quotes

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.