[ because Quotes ]
233 Quotations
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
[ Ancestry ]
Fred A. Allen
24 votes
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
[ Ignorance ]
American Proverb
27 votes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
[ Action ]
Maya Angelou
23 votes
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
[ Death and Dying ]
Arabian Proverb
23 votes
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
[ Freedom ]
Sir Edwin Arnold
27 votes
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
[ Truth ]
St. Augustine
17 votes
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
[ God ]
St. Augustine
24 votes
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
[ Fear ]
Grandma Axiom
22 votes
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Alec Baldwin
19 votes
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
[ Regret ]
Lucille Ball
19 votes
Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
[ Appraisal ]
James A. Belasco
18 votes
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
[ Power ]
Stephen Vincent Benet
23 votes
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
[ Story and Story-Telling ]
Walter Benjamin
25 votes
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
[ Marriage ]
Jill Bennett
19 votes
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
[ Originality ]
Tony Bennett
27 votes
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Thomas Berger
21 votes
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
[ Failure ]
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
22 votes
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
[ Frigidity ]
Fanny Brice
23 votes
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
[ Courage ]
Les Brown
21 votes
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
[ Fear ]
Les Brown
22 votes
You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.
[ Circumstance ]
Harry Browne
23 votes
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
[ Beauty ]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
23 votes
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
[ Change ]
Lyman L. Bryson
24 votes
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
[ Feelings ]
John Buchan
35 votes
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
[ Action ]
Warren Buffett
18 votes
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
[ Life and Living ]
George Burns
17 votes
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Sir Richard Burton
18 votes
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
[ Wisdom ]
Thomas Carlyle
24 votes
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
[ Feminism ]
Angela Carter
19 votes
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
[ Passion ]
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
13 votes
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
[ Education ]
William Ellery Channing
21 votes
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
[ Belief ]
Lord Chesterfield
23 votes
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
[ Angels ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
24 votes
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
[ Reality ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
18 votes
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
[ Terrorism ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
20 votes
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
[ Age and Aging ]
Agatha Christie
14 votes
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
[ Courage ]
Winston Churchill
22 votes