Top 1200 Because I Can Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.

There's an expression in life: "You can only make one first impression." And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it's ready to go. It's not a set rule, but I think it's the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it's good, not because you found it.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

I never see bodybuilding on the sports page and it is not considered to be a sport because of the drug question, because of steroids, let's be honest.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the right person, you're constantly judging your writing or what it is that isn't working here or not clicking here, because you have amazing actors coming to read for it, and if something's not clicking, it can't be them because they're amazing actors. You're sort of completely doubting yourself.

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

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.

I love Kamal and Sarika because they are my parents. But nobody buys me a car because of that, and you aren't flooded with offers, either.

Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.

I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

I'm super proud of myself, not because I can throw punches inside a ring but just because of my journey and who I proved that I am.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

You know how people are becoming sexually active way too early because they think it's going to be like it is in the movies. And people are not aware of their bodies in a certain way, because they are afraid to see themselves for who they are because they want to see themselves in someone else's shoes or whatever.

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

TV becomes easier because you get to spend time with that character. It's going to go on for a while, and the more you know something, the easier it becomes, the less nerves you have about it, and the better it is for improv because you have that camaraderie between cast regulars. In film, it's harder because you got to get in and get out.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.