Quotes of: Because Keyword

Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Egyptian

Because of their figure, vain women stay cold.

Japanese

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malay

Dust does not rise because a dog-flea hops.

Myanmar

I want to be softened, not stiff. Pliable, not rigid. I don't want anyone to look at my life and think it is perfect or, worse, that I want them to think it is perfect. Instead, I want anything that is unapproachable or harsh in me to be scrubbed awa...

A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on...

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's re...

The Laugh of the Medusa

Fear, sadness. They’re not weaknesses. They are overpowering, defining emotions. They make you human, Sophie.” “They are signs of defect,” I told him, reverting back to curt Sophie. “Says who?” “Me.” “Why?” “Because I — becaus...

Vain

You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘Why?’ Because you called me a phoney, Moist thought. You saw through me straight away. Because you didn’t nail my head to the door with your crossbow. Because you...

Going Postal

I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?" More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke more softly. "Is it because you are intelligent? Is it bec...

The Magicians

We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do without it. Sometimes the two motives coincide. Often however they do not. Each is distinct and quite independent. We eat distasteful food...

Waiting for God

I could go on all night, Lake. I could go on and on and on about all the reasons I’m in love with you. And you know what? Some of them are the things that life has thrown our way. I do love you because you’re the only other person I know who unde...

Point of Retreat

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Gramsci's Prison Letters

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

Maurice Chevalier

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

Julian Clary

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

Robert Jackson

Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

Tyler Farr

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

T.L. Rese

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Kurt Cobain

Don't say yes to something just because it's an opportunity.

Lennon Parham

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana