Because Quotes

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

They succeed, because they think they can.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.