Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.
I’ve never regretted anything I’ve done, even the things that I’ve failed at. I’ve often regretted not trying something really big, because you’ll never know.
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world’s major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.
Nobody voted for me on account of my origins. People voted for me because of what I am and what I stand for.
I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.
Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
I’m investing. I’m taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero – which, it’s an experiment, it could – I won’t be on the street.
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I don’t play no one else’s game and I don’t run no one else’s race because if I did that, I wouldn’t be who I am.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.
Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.
I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
My legacy is that I stayed on course… from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
