#cause

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. ↗

— Woody Allen

#because #chess #failed #height #i

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#distrust #founded #ideological #intelligence #just

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before. ↗

— William Ames

#before #begin #cease #did #does

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#been #confront #deplorable #exposure #get

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#adversities #background #because #carp #got

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#because #believe #belong #constantly #felt

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