Top 100 Because We Can Quotes
#1. For thousands of years we have gathered in circle
around fires, around bodies, around altars
because we can't do this alone.
Wayne Muller
#2. I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together with, because we can talk about everything. I think that's why I enjoy it. Writers tend to be pretty open-minded, and pretty profane and loose. They have fun minds.
Chang-rae Lee
#3. Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.
Francis George
#4. [Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.
Rick Santorum
#5. 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
#6. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.
Roger Ebert
#7. One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.
Chris Albrecht
#8. One of the Taliban spokesmen said they have thousands of men who look forward to death like Americans look forward to living, which is great because we can arrange that. We'll set them up with death, we'll continue living.
Jay Leno
#9. We weren't arguing," said the bear. "Because we can't talk." Then it said, "Oops.
Neil Gaiman
#10. There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.
Debbie Ford
#11. Dietary change is step one, because we can change the microbiota dominance within seventy-two hours of simple changes to eliminate potential triggers to the immune system and rebalance the gut flora.
Kelly Brogan
#13. I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#15. Maybe things don't really happen for a reason," Kenneth said. "Or maybe they do. But I think it doesn't matter either way. Because we can only experience those things as humans. And because we're humans, we're going to think they mean one thing, even if they mean another.
Rose Christo
#16. We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.
Matt Blaze
#17. We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.
Jaron Lanier
#18. Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.
James S.A. Corey
#19. That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
Carlton Cuse
#20. Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.
Scott Nicholson
#21. and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.
Mohsin Hamid
#22. If you can raise profits by shaving costs on your main product and 90 percent of your customers wouldn't even notice, why not just do it? Because we can tell the difference.
Howard Schultz
#23. Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.
Robert Brault
#24. The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.
Peter Schiff
#26. Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.
Joel Salatin
#27. Oh, don't be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can't just ban a thing because we can't control it.'
The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don't see why not. It's never stopped us before.
Terry Pratchett
#29. What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.
Colson Whitehead
#30. We can know ourselves only because we can remember.
John Ratey
#31. Someone once told me that you know you've found the right one when both people feel like they don't deserve each other." She closed her eyes, then leaned back and looked at me.
"Let's love each other because we can't help it, not because we deserve it.
Marilyn Grey
#32. We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
Fernando Pessoa
#33. Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
Andy Rooney
#34. Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
Diane Ackerman
#35. We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.
Joey Harrington
#36. In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.
Radhanath Swami
#37. There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.
Ally Carter
#38. We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
Walter Savage Landor
#39. God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!
Hermann Weyl
#40. And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#41. We never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestation.
John Green
#42. I was thinking about how all of us sometimes think our plans, our destinies, have come to an end or a standstill, but they don't; our destinies keep going. It's just that we can't, like, see it, because we can't see the big picture to know it.
Sarah Holman
#43. The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.
Roxane Gay
#44. We don't always understand other people's pain, Ryder. Just because we can't see it, doesn't mean they aren't hurting.
Jani Kay
#45. We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.
Donna Lynn Hope
#46. I think we're supposed to know everything we can figure out. I don't think we're supposed to make up answers just because we can't stand living with unanswered questions.
Ben Logan
#47. That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.
Cath Crowley
#48. You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#49. I feel to think, he thinks to feel. It is I and my kind that have the wider range, because we can be impersonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves.
H.G.Wells
#50. It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.
Andrew W.K.
#51. We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.
Herb Kelleher
#52. Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
Roxane Gay
#53. Just because we can doesn't mean we should and just because we should doesn't mean we can.
The Prolific Penman
#54. Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.
Robert Breault
#55. From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.
Scot McKnight
#56. There is no such thing in the world as a "self-made man" or a "self-made woman". We've received so much from so many for so long that we can't even keep count. But, simply because we can't keep count, doesn't mean we discount.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#57. Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
#58. Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy.
Tim Jackson
#59. We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sam Kean
#60. I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas ... because we can always learn more.
Sailor Jerry
#61. Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#62. We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
Jim Rohn
#63. We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
David Sheff
#64. Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading
Julian Johnson
#65. And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.
Andrea Dworkin
#66. I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested in our jobs and it keeps us coming back to work, every day. A new setting is amazing 'cause it's new for the team and it's new for our characters.
Aldis Hodge
#67. We have children because we can't remember our own first taste of ambrosia." I can't
Ken Liu
#68. It is much less important that the doctrine itself should be fully comprehensible. We believe that the sun is in the sky at midday in summer not because we can clearly see the sun (in fact, we cannot) but because we can see everything else.
C.S. Lewis
#69. We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
Mignon McLaughlin
#70. Our world opens up because we can let go. We can relinquish, and we are not afraid. We do not have to hold on.
Sharon Salzberg
#71. The best things in life are making mistakes, because we can learn from it.
Jan Jansen
#72. But just because we can't fix Obamacare doesn't mean we can't start to get rid of its worst features. On Thursday, the House will take up a bill to define 'full time' as 40 hours per week, so more people can work full time.
Paul Ryan
#73. We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
John McEnroe
#74. We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau
#75. To flee from the battle is the worst thing that could happen. It is worse than losing the fight, because we can always learn something from defeat; if we flee, all we do is declare that our enemy has won.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Because we can't, we don't know how to talk about a movie or a book anymore; the moment has come when movies and novels don't matter, only the time we saw them, read them: where we were, what we were doing, who we were then.
Alejandro Zambra
#77. At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
Kate Micucci
#78. Cycling is one of those weird pastimes where the participant is continually faced with adversity, mediocrity and many other reasons to stop and go and do something more rewarding instead. Yet I and others carry on doing it, because we can and we love it.
Dave Barter
#79. But in some quarters the very success of science has also led to the idea that, because we can understand the mechanisms of the universe without bringing in God, we can safely conclude that there was no God who designed and created the universe in the first place.
John C. Lennox
#80. No way, Loopy Loo. You aren't hoardin' all the action." He turned to Indy, "You're drivin' because we can all fit in your silly-ass car. When we see a break in the coffee action, I'll go home and get my shotgun.
Kristen Ashley
#81. Even the smallest measure of time is greater than the greatest measure of space. Or is that a lie? Does it only seem so to us, because we can never get it back?
Paul Bowles
#82. We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can use this time to transform the economy to make us stronger so that when the world starts growing again we can be running faster than other countries we compete with.
John Key
#83. Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
#84. It's not because we can't take vengeance that we should feel sorry. The real reason to feel sorry... is when one is hung up on revenge and can't live their own life.
Sui Ishida
#85. But i don't care. Because we can say them or not; it doesn't matter. What is in our heats is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness and silence.
Beth Revis
#86. As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.
Stephen King
#87. There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
Lauren Beukes
#88. Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back ... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.
Susanna Kaysen
#89. To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being
good for all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#90. Are you sure you want to do this?" Big Tag asked the question in and exaggerated whisper. "Because we can still get you out of here. I've got an extraction team standing by.
Lexi Blake
#91. We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.
Chloe Thurlow
#92. Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.
Beverly Jenkins
#93. Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
David Daiches
#94. All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
Deb Caletti
#96. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#97. We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.
Charles A. Reich
#98. Today we have done an hour's saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. Kat can't get it out of his head. "You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well," he says. Kropp
Erich Maria Remarque
#99. You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
Erich Maria Remarque
#100. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.
Bill Gates
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