Top 100 Things Because Quotes
#1. The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#2. That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.
Jc Caylen
#3. If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.
Josh Hartnett
#5. When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.
Monica Crowley
#6. One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
Edgar Ramirez
#7. You don't ever want to know certain things, because what you know belongs to you, and there are certain things you never want to own.
Patricio Pron
#8. I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.
Jessica Simpson
#9. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Luc De Clapiers
#10. When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice
#11. Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.
Ed Sheeran
#12. Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Pliny The Elder
#13. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you
Ben Sherwood
#14. I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.
Peter Capaldi
#15. We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young.
Beryl Markham
#16. People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Laozi
#19. I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
Marilyn Manson
#20. It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
Edwidge Danticat
#21. Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
Mitch Albom
#22. You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.
Ed Begley Jr.
#23. You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.
Veronica Roth
#24. The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.
Prince William
#25. I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
Mark Haddon
#26. I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.
Marc Warren
#27. I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
Walt Disney
#28. Children always want the same things because they all need the same basic things.
Cecelia Ahern
#29. I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
Olivia D'Abo
#30. It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.
Stanley Fish
#31. I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.
Rokia Traore
#32. Not to just say you need to be a good person - but, better, find the good that you already have in yourself and don't deny that, don't let the world talk you out of the good things because it's not hip or cool. Sooner or later, you have to live with yourself.
Martha Williamson
#33. The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
Randy Pausch
#34. I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
Carine Roitfeld
#35. An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
Alejandro Amenabar
#36. In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.
Mike Colter
#37. God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley
#38. Aristotle thought place should "take precedence of all other things" because place gives order to the world. Casey tells us that Aristotle claimed that place "gives bountiful aegis - active protective support - to what it locates.
Anonymous
#39. You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.
Mike Krzyzewski
#40. I was having one of those days where I wanted to start throwing things because only breaking crap would make me feel better. My limit for acceptable weirdness in my daily life had been
maxed out.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#41. Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
Macaulay Culkin
#42. I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.
Joe Nichols
#43. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce
#44. If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.
Frederick Lenz
#45. I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.
Lori Greiner
#46. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
#47. Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from Todo Sobre Mi Madre
Pedro Almodovar
#48. I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.
Roger Craig Smith
#49. The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays.
Anneliese Van Der Pol
#50. Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.
Ricky Gervais
#51. Many years ago a friend of mine, Kevin O'Niel made a very profound comment ...
The difference between the love of God and the love of man is that man loves people or things because they are precious: but God simply loves us - and by loving us makes us precious.
Kevin King
#52. Humans have a tendency to overcomplicate simple things because we overthink them. But if you take a step back and remember your priorities, it becomes easier to make a decision. When
Lilly Singh
#53. We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.
Steve Alford
#54. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#55. People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
Martin Yan
#56. You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.
Ray McGovern
#57. Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.
Abhinavagupta
#58. I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
George Clooney
#59. I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.
Daymond John
#60. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.
Christopher Poindexter
#61. O this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.
Rebecca Hamilton
#62. If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.
Jon Stewart
#63. It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.
Ariana Grande
#64. I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
Iris Apfel
#65. One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley
#66. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!
Abhishek Ratna
#67. The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.
Daymond John
#68. People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. When all good and great teachers die, ignorance will awake and teach so well, with an understandable vigor, and all students of ignorance will do all things because of ignorance, with an unthinkable joy and vigor!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.
George MacDonald
#71. Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.
Masi Oka
#72. Unfortunately, you choose things because they're safer---that is understandable, though. Inanimate objects don't do unexpected things or break your heart or betray you. Objects are safe. People are complicated.
J.R. Ward
#73. Learn to be happy with simple things because you are completely surrounded by the wonderful simple things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
Pamela Moore
#75. I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.
David Lynch
#76. Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.
Sarah Schulman
#77. Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.
Kathryn Perez
#78. I have no desire to change things because I am the youngest in my family. I like meeting new people when I travel: these brief and inconsequential encounters have the thrill of beginnings and the sadness of separations.
Edouard Leve
#79. Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid?
C.D. Reiss
#80. In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.
Tony McCoy
#81. The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
Angela Thirkell
#82. People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.
Dean Koontz
#83. I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
Waris Ahluwalia
#84. Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!
Susan Vaught
#85. I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.
Ellen DeGeneres
#86. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
Paulo Coelho
#87. When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
Sam Keen
#88. Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.
Jerry Greenfield
#89. I've been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
Bill Shankly
#90. I'd promised myself that I'd really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#91. We are busy because we try to do too many things. We do too many things because we say yes to too many people. We say yes to all these people because we want them to like us and we fear their disapproval.
Kevin DeYoung
#92. I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know ... the next idea you have might be the one.
Steven Price
#93. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Mark Twain
#94. Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.
Tom Brady
#95. You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?
T.T. Escurel
#96. It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
Cass Sunstein
#97. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
Salvador Plascencia
#98. The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.
Laurence Sterne
#99. Nice people sometimes do terrible things because they don't want to do one small mean thing. It doesn't automatically make them a bad person forever.
Lucy Dillon
#100. People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
