Because Quotes
- Page 38Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
P. J. O'Rourke
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Tom Hiddleston
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Paul Tillich
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Eric Davis
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
King Abdullah II
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
Marco Rubio
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
Christopher Hitchens
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown
When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Cat Stevens
People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.
Liam Neeson