
Top 100 Ones Because Quotes
#1. My mom told me once - relationships end until the one that doesn't. So you can't be sad, really. Because if the wrong ones didn't end, you wouldn't be available when the right one came along.
Eli Easton
#2. Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
Arthur Miller
#3. Keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.
Keydia Marie
#4. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.
Tracy Banghart
#5. There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#6. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
#8. I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
Blythe Danner
#9. The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.
James Altucher
#10. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done and they're the only ones left to do it
Meg Cabot
#11. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute
Atul Gawande
#12. Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
Karin Slaughter
#13. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.
Melanie Shankle
#14. I know what it is like to live every day and every hour by the fruits of someone else's wretched bargain. To see people suffer and know that they suffer because I am loved.
I would not do that to the ones I love. Not for anything in the whole wide world.
Rosamund Hodge
#15. Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#16. In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari Maathai
#17. Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to.
A.J. Sheppard
#18. There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen Hawking
#19. It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
Dan Gilroy
#20. With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
Tess Gerritsen
#21. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Taylor Swift
#22. Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#23. I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.
George Lucas
#24. Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
Joan Rivers
#25. Why is it they say you always hurt the ones you love? Because you know exactly how to do it.
Eileen Cook
#26. When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.
Benedict Freedman
#27. Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
Jamie Lawson
#28. Because revolution - armed uprising - requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die - or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
#30. School is not like church.
I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this,
but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind
of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.
David Levithan
#31. I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.
Alex Kingston
#32. Habits die hard, only good ones, because bad ones are immortal.
Lovely Goyal
#33. We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.
Wangari Maathai
#34. Special-needs rescues and older rescues have always had a close place in my heart, because those are the ones that tend to get looked over. That is why I love how North Shore Animal League America has their shelter set up.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
#35. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.
Tom Platz
#36. The monsters we can't see, the ones that dwell only in our minds, are the scariest ones of all. Because there's only one way to fight those monsters. With the help of someone who loves you.
Cassia Leo
#37. It was precisely because her songs were dragged up out of her soul that they were so powerful and passionate. The ones that went into "Back to Black" were about the deepest emotions. And she went through hell to make it.
Mitch Winehouse
#38. Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.
Paulo Coelho
#39. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.
Antal Szerb
#40. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#41. A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
Beth Ditto
#42. I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.
Beth Orton
#43. Hold on to the ones you love,' Grandpa Joe told him now. 'Hold on to them tightly and tell them that you love them at every opportunity because you just don't know when you'll be parted from them.
Victoria Connelly
#44. There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
Paget Brewster
#45. The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
Ron Eglash
#46. The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
Pat Barker
#47. We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
Kerry King
#48. It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#49. You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.
Steven Soderbergh
#50. One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
#51. God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
Criss Jami
#52. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
Violet Cross
#53. Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
Paul Kagame
#54. Don't cry my son
Don't cry, because life is a redeemed fight
Life is a fight that will demean the weak person
And will always exalt the strong ones
Goncalves Dias
#55. I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.
Julie Gonzalez
#56. The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.
One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,
because he knows that the body is nothing.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.
PJ Harvey
#58. Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
Toni Morrison
#59. There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.
Jamie Lidell
#60. But his father didn't know
And his teachers didn't seem to care
Because they rewarded the ones who invented
Cruel names for the ones the teachers never
rewarded
Matthew Quick
#61. It has been found that people are more sensitive to negative faces, picking sad and angry expressions out of a crowd more quickly than positive ones. This is perhaps because we use them as indicators of threat.
Glen Wilson
#62. I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
Michael Stipe
#63. I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.
Amy Schumer
#64. No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones
I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here
are only stand-ins for what you can say better without talking at all.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#65. I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
Natalie Portman
#66. I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn't mean they were the good ones.
Nova Ren Suma
#67. It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Quincy Jones
#68. Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
Tony Hsieh
#69. Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
John Caudwell
#70. Why can't you just say 'don't breathe the water' like a normal person?"
"Because I'm a doctor, and they teach us never to use little words where big ones will do.
Mira Grant
#71. Live and learn, babe. See, you never need to worry about the bitches because you already know what to expect. It's the friendly ones you gotta watch out for
Lex Martin
#72. Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones."
T. Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
#73. Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments - the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.
Dennis Prager
#74. I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!
Meaghan Martin
#75. Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.
Michael E. Moseley
#76. It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#77. The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
Willem Dafoe
#78. No. No way. I don't love Aren. I can't because, damn it, I'm not one of those girls, the ones who have two men chasing after them but can't make up their minds who to choose. If you can't decide who you love more, you don't love either of them enough.
Sandy Williams
#79. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#80. Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
Kara DioGuardi
#81. Every living thing dies, Art. That's why we cherish it while we have it. That's why we respect the decisions our loved ones make for themselves. That's why we love, and why we care, and why we hurt. Because everything dies.
Reilyn J. Hardy
#82. We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad
#83. I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Kevin Rollins
#84. Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time ...
Ellen DeGeneres
#85. There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.
Michelle Stuart
#86. Were the paths that we were heading down the right ones for us- or were we simply staying the course because we thought we should? Was the road most frequently traveled the one that we wanted to follow?
Amanda Pressner
#87. Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.
Terry Pratchett
#88. There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#89. Today, I'm a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn't have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.
Jeff Corwin
#90. For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
Perry Chen
#91. We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.
Susan Wittig Albert
#92. Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.
Joan Cusack
#93. Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening - and avoiding those situations in the future if possible - is often critical to survival.
Bruce D. Perry
#94. It's kind of strange ... All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they're real.
Maurissa Guibord
#95. It was dangerous to overflow, because we might end up flooding areas occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.
Paulo Coelho
#96. Miracles come in all shapes and sizes. So, try not to have particular conditions, because doing so may very well prevent you from recognizing the biggest ones.
Charles F. Glassman
#97. I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.
Nicole Richie
#98. Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.
Sophie Hannah
#99. The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.
Billy Bob Thornton
#100. Learn from your mistakes. The number one reason I see entrepreneurs failing isn't because they make mistakes, but they keep on making the same ones over and over again. Learn from them and avoid making the same ones over again.
Neil Patel
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