Because For Quotes

#1. He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.

Jody Gehrman

#2. To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Judith Butler

#3. Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

Patrick F. McManus

#4. Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

Ellen Greene

#5. Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Joyce Meyer

#6. I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#7. Look, do you want to come in? Because for someone who's not talking to me, you certainly seem to have a lot to say.

Lauren Barnholdt

#8. People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

John Burnside

#9. The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

Sebastian Barry

#10. There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

Frantz Fanon

#12. I didn't really want to patent it because, for one, I don't like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don't know someone's infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone.

Jessica Livingston

#13. I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

Dario Argento

#14. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

Roland Barthes

#15. Remind me why we just said goodbye?
...
Because for the life of me, I can't think of one damn good reason.
...
What would you say if I told you I wasn't ready to let you go just yet?

Penelope Ward

#16. 'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

John Lahr

#17. You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

Julian Schnabel

#18. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Sloane Crosley

#19. I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.

Jane Pauley

#20. I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.

Kristin Gore

#21. Papa- the accordionist- and Himmel Street.

One could not exist without the other, because for Liesel, both were home.

Markus Zusak

#22. That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

Barack Obama

#23. You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

Chuck Wendig

#24. Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Fiona Apple

#25. She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#26. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

John Muir

#27. God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

Ellen Hopkins

#28. Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

Dan Aykroyd

#29. I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

Matt Stone

#30. The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Shereen El Feki

#31. The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

Renzo Piano

#32. But, look; it also exists for acts that are really established. It's not always a guarantee that you're going to do something that's going to be of quality. It's not always in your control. That's sort of how the business is. Because for the moment - for the moment, we're blessed.

Steve Zissis

#33. Sure, we all have problems and we all have our mess, and what happens tomorrow is anyone's guess, but there's no need and no benefit to let yourself stress, because for one and for all ... life is blessed!

Hal Elrod

#34. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#35. That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

Doug Liman

#36. It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it'd be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.

Jenny Han

#37. I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

Joss Whedon

#38. We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

Daniel Quinn

#39. I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Arj Barker

#40. I think for me, when I'm looking at a script I really try to consider what experience am I embarking upon, because for me it's really about the experience.

Jennifer Beals

#41. There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Barry McGuire

#42. I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Martin Gore

#43. Maybe ... because for the first time ... there was a chance I could keep him," I say.
"So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?"
"Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.

Suzanne Collins

#44. I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

W.C. Fields

#45. I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.

Jimmy Webb

#46. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Mary Harron

#48. Because you understand. More than anyone. Because you know what it's like never to trust anyone - to be completely alone, lost in a disguise of your own making. Because ... because for quite some time I've -

Sara B. Larson

#49. I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

Moira Kelly

#50. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

Ann Aguirre

#51. I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

Peter Mandelson

#52. At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

Seann William Scott

#53. I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

Lauryn Hill

#54. I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

Azzedine Alaia

#55. For fourteen days, I was unspeakably happy. Unspeakably but not absolutely because, for me, joy never comes without the grief of knowing it is only ephemeral. All happiness carries with it the seed of its own end.

Gabrielle Wittkop

#56. We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Donnie Wahlberg

#57. David Hasselhoff was hospitalized after falling off the wagon again. He probably got used to drinking too much, because for years he never had to worry about driving anywhere - his car drove itself.

Chelsea Handler

#58. Maybe because, for the first time in all these years, you looked at me as more than your friend.

Kelly Moran

#59. Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.

Kim Harrison

#60. Stories are based in conflict, and when the conflict is resolved the story ends. That's because for the most part happiness is amorphous, wordless, and largely uninteresting.

Ann Patchett

#61. I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

Ben Stein

#62. Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

Robert Stephens

#63. He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.

Soren Kierkegaard

#64. Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more
years they expect you to have another good one.

Frankie Frisch

#65. I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.

Adam Mickiewicz

#66. The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

Bill Dedman

#67. My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

David Guetta

#68. I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a we.

Brandi Glanville

#69. Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.

Gary Cole

#70. I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Albert Schweitzer

#71. It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

Gloria Steinem

#72. The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Robert Dallek

#73. I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#74. I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Meryl Streep

#75. The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach.

Wladimir Klitschko

#76. I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.

Eckhart Tolle

#77. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe .

Frantz Fanon

#78. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#79. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#80. The dissatisfaction and internal conflict that I had felt throughout my life wasn't due to my husband or my marriage or my career. It was because for the majority of my life I had been trying to be something that I wasn't. I was not true to myself.

Louisa Leontiades

#81. The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

William Dean Howells

#82. Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#83. People are drawn to religion because for them there is only one thing worse than an ambiguous life, and that is an unambiguous death.

Stephen R. Harrison

#84. Because for me, you are truth. My truth. My heart, is all you.

Tillie Cole

#85. I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

#86. I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that is the reason I am severing all my relations with him.77

Orlando Figes

#87. It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

Luke Evans

#88. [America has to import so many workers because] for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce.

Mike Huckabee

#89. Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Georgette Heyer

#90. Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

#91. I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

Nastia Liukin

#92. My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.

Christian Scott

#93. I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#94. Love is when you're with someone and you never check the time because for you, time doesn't exist.

S. Walden

#95. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#96. You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Samuelsson

#97. I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Richard Dawkins

#98. I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

Maddie Ziegler

#99. Really, she didn't know if she'd truly like to find out more about the pygmy tyrant. She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career.

Maggie Stiefvater

#100. Because for the rest of my life," she said, dropping his eyes to gather her courage before lifting her chin and spearing him with her gaze, "I only want to be with you.

Katy Regnery