Because It Quotes

#1. Additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle - but because it would have to be positioned nearly horizontally out over the river, it would test the limits of what was safe. Had

Nicholas Sparks

#2. He's just my first love. My first crush. Maybe that's why they called it crush. Because it indeed crush you. Literally. Break your heart. Leave pain. Rip you apart.

Yuli Pritania

#3. Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. Don't write off a book (or person, or movie) just because it had a pink, sparkly cover.

Abby McDonald

#5. Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Eliza Dushku

#6. There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less." Suddenly,

Kandi Steiner

#7. They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

John Landis

#8. If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.

Timothy Ferriss

#9. The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#10. I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

Carrie Brownstein

#11. I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

Shirley Maclaine

#12. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

D. Todd Christofferson

#13. I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

Matt Frewer

#14. Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.

Katrina Monroe

#15. Don't accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state.

Myles Munroe

#16. Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

Bryant McGill

#17. Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

Sam Altman

#18. Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

Sam Kean

#19. I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

#20. You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.

Lauren Holmes

#22. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

#23. That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

Taylor Dayne

#24. unbelievable fairy tale ever. And now, people read those BDSM books like they're going out of style because it makes them wet. That sure as fuck doesn't make it a good novel. A porno movie will make them wet too, but it sure doesn't mean it's a good movie. I fucking swear," he said.

Scott Hildreth

#25. Through a veil of tears I watched the city get smaller and smaller. It was funny, because it sort of felt as if my heart was doing the same thing.

E.M. Denning

#26. I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

Florence Welch

#27. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

William Blum

#28. I believe happiness is always there. That's why we have to keep looking for it. Because we can't always see it.
Because it doesn't always find us.

Lisa Mangum

#29. Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Alain De Botton

#30. I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

Christina Ricci

#31. I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it's always good to try the international market because it doesn't have the same kind of baggage.

Haile Gerima

#32. I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#33. Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Terrio

#34. The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.

Gloria Furman

#35. Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#36. They wont ride at night, said Brown. The recruit looked back at the figures gathered about the keg in that scoured and darkening waste. Why wont they? he said. Brown spat. Because it's dark, he said.

Cormac McCarthy

#37. From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.

Logan Green

#38. I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

Marian Keyes

#39. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.

Stephen Lovegrove

#40. You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Arthur Cohn

#41. Oh shoot, Imagene, you shouldn't have told them that. Big mouth. "I mean, not that the hotel's not open for business now, because it is. Sure enough. You're both here." I flashed a big toothy grin, but only Carter smiled back. The

Lisa Wingate

#42. The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

William Bell

#43. This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

Alfred Hitchcock

#44. No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

Ted Williams

#45. I believe that it is important for us to understand the reason why the enemy attacks the womb because it is then that we will have a more accurate way to pray against it and overcome it.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#46. Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

Summer Glau

#47. That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#49. 'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

Jamie Cullum

#50. The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

Paul A. Baran

#51. I stepped on as many feet as I could because it took my mind off this enormous desire to puke that was ballooning up in front of me so fast I couldn't see round it.

Sylvia Plath

#52. America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

Janet Reno

#53. I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

Phyllis Diller

#54. I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

Harry Hamlin

#55. When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.

Craig Venter

#56. This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted
surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.

David Levithan

#57. I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Matthew Modine

#58. It was worth repeating, because it constituted the First Law of Sentient Ordnance: Thou shalt not blow up the wrong planet. On that point the programmers had been insistent to the point of fussiness. Accordingly,

Tom Holt

#59. Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Jonathan V. Last

#60. A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

G.K. Chesterton

#61. Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

Graham Greene

#62. Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

Hamdi Ulukaya

#63. When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

Susan Sontag

#64. In her memoirs she writes that she left the hospital job because it eventually made her numb to suffering, and it left her no time to write. She neglected

David Brooks

#65. Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

Michel De Montaigne

#66. I'm a little worried about a Batman versus Superman movie just because it's ... I just think it's really tough to pull off. I'm very excited about seeing it, but I think it's really tough to balance those two characters in the same movie.

Robbie Amell

#67. The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

Ralph Lauren

#68. Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole.- Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#69. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you - because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that - all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.

Anne Ursu

#70. I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

Soren Kierkegaard

#71. Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Daphne Rose Kingma

#72. The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Donald Knuth

#73. Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

Mike Gordon

#74. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#75. It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment ... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

Joel Salatin

#76. A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.

Tim O'Brien

#77. I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

Lisa Kudrow

#78. Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the best in you. It hurts because it forces you to confront every aspect of yourself. It forces you out of your comfort zone.

Jessica Gadziala

#79. But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria ...

Bashar Al-Assad

#80. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

Jasper Fforde

#81. I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

Arthur Blank

#82. I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

Kelley Armstrong

#83. We may call it "people pleasing," but it is entirely self-serving because it is really all about keeping myself comfortable. Boiled down, it could be more accurately called "me pleasing.

Emily P. Freeman

#84. By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn't a dream ...
It was a memory.

Dani Harper

#85. I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

Scott Bakula

#86. Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future.

Malcolm X

#87. I like to see a man obeying a woman," Father Pyrlig said as I fetched the loaf.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"Because it means I'm not alone in this sorry world.

Bernard Cornwell

#88. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Bobby Farrelly

#89. I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic.

Nancy Werlin

#90. The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

Michael Chertoff

#91. I want you to know something. And I'm not saying this as your boyfriend or even as your friend. I'm saying this because it needs to be said by someone ... I'm so proud of you.

Colleen Hoover

#92. World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

Ruth Reichl

#93. Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

Marianne Faithfull

#94. And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Michael Chabon

#95. Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

Amit Abraham

#96. True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

John Bradshaw

#97. And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#98. It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

Alexander Hamilton

#99. I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Simon Van Booy

#100. The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!

Pope John Paul II