Because Quotes

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.