Top 100 Are Because Quotes
#1. To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire
#2. It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.
Carolina Herrera
#3. Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.
Leila Janah
#4. High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.
Nick Jonas
#5. Some things just are, because they are. Because God made them that way.
Lisa Wingate
#6. You are what you are because that is what you really want to be!
We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are!
You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.
Lester Sumrall
#7. Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
Gloria Steinem
#8. The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.
Robert D. Hales
#9. I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are.
Milton Berle
#10. What matters is that you should remain exactly what you are because from there starts growth. A
Osho
#11. If you're reading this and you think that maybe you could love someone of the same gender (or nongender), all I have to say to you is this: Congratulations! You're perfect and wonderful and more alive than you ever knew. Be proud of who you are because you're already more than enough.
Hannah Hart
#12. I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel.
Drew Roy
#13. Our Founders warned against this. They said don't ... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle
#14. Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
Beth Behrs
#15. Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people."
Ali Liebegott
#16. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#17. We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.
Karen Armstrong
#18. You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are ... off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
Elizabeth Berg
#19. In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
John Lubbock
#20. The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
Douglas Coupland
#21. Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.
Paul E. Miller
#22. Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do.
Anne Fletcher
#24. We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
Donald Kagan
#25. Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.
Jack Kirby
#26. We are who we are because of who we were
Vanilla Ice
#27. All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
Burt Reynolds
#28. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
Doris Lessing
#29. Don't think for a second that my issues are because of anything you do or don't do.
Colleen Hoover
#30. Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.
Mors Kochanski
#31. Never to reject someone just because they are not of your type or the way you want, accept them for what they are because if once they are changed they are one to reject you..
Sanjana Singh
#32. Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
C.S. Lewis
#34. My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
Billy Crudup
#35. We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men ... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
#36. After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
Sandra Bullock
#37. To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
Christina Ricci
#38. In the aftermath, we are because they were.
RJ Heller
#39. You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
Lisa Kudrow
#40. People are who they are, because oft the world they are living in.
The world is as it is, because of the people living in it.
Ann Leckie
#41. You have to take people as they are because there are no others.
Konrad Adenauer
#42. For the most part, the people who are currently in Satan's kingdom don't realize where they really are, because it is a kingdom of darkness, and they can't "see" it. In contrast, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of light; therefore, those who are in His kingdom know where they are.
Derek Prince
#43. That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.
Connor Franta
#44. Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.
Kathleen Fuller
#45. People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Jeff Wheeler
#46. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
#47. We are who we are because somebody loved us.
Cornel West
#48. Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
Samuel West
#49. Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.
Demi Lovato
#50. We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.
Timothy Keller
#51. Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even if these are just delusions occupying my time, thank God they are, because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't life worth living.
Chris Colfer
#52. We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.
Geena Rocero
#53. Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#54. And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
Sigmund Freud
#55. We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Napoleon Hill
#56. You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.
Andy Andrews
#57. You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
Stephen Lang
#58. I trust you. But I'm also going with you."
"Of course you are. Because, my Cyn, if the shit hits the fan
"
"When the shit hits the fan."
"
I trust you to be there to turn the damn fan off.
D.B. Reynolds
#59. Be who you are because that's you and you are beautiful.
Jada Berglund
#60. Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
Matt McGorry
#61. Everyone of you got to where you are because someone influenced you.
Johnny Hunt
#62. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#63. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
Joe Biden
#64. You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
#65. You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
Julie Mehretu
#66. Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
Charles Koch
#67. You are what you are because of what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
#68. Most of our tension with others are because they show the reality of us and we can't accept it. People are best mirror.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#69. It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.
Francine Rivers
#70. It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.
Hillary Clinton
#71. I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They're sort of like camp caricatures of what you expect an aristocrat should be: vicious, rude, caustic unpleasantries.
Duncan Roy
#72. Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?
Mira Bartok
#74. Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them.
Vaclav Havel
#75. You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.
LZ Granderson
#76. Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'
Brett Dalton
#77. I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
R. Kelly
#78. To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#79. No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It's a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.
Paul David Tripp
#80. Luck is knowing to look around him and see where his friends are, because it was through their words that the angels were able to make themselves heard.
Paulo Coelho
#81. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
Daniel Radcliffe
#82. Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.
Marion Barry
#83. We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.
Claire Fontaine
#85. Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver
Emmanuel Olawale
#86. You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.
William J. Brennan
#87. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#88. That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
Horace
#89. I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
Elizabeth Lesser
#90. She inches closer so we're practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I'm light-headed.
Kat Kruger
#91. All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
Kangana Ranaut
#92. Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#93. I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.
Kelly Clarkson
#94. We are what we are because our will is free: We are free to choose.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
Jackie Evancho
#96. The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
Val McDermid
#97. Never let someone's opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.
Les Brown
#98. It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
James Bovard
#99. Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.
Fred Hoyle
#100. You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.
T. B. Joshua
