#because

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#most #opportunity #otherwise #plain #scarcity

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#cannot #consider #god #how #know

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#because #depends #does #heroic #only

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#against #airplay #anything #artists #because

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#husband #i #involved #know #like

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it. ↗

— Tom Araya

#especially #focus #good #i #really

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attempts #because #cannot #does #free

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat. ↗

— Carol Alt

#always #because #depressed #dinners #doing

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. ↗

— Carol Alt

#alaska #amount #because #certain #comes

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#believers #committed