Because Quotes

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.