#cause

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ↗

— James Joyce

#because #christopher #columbus #discover #everyone

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#because #i #i am #perhaps #talker

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Les Brown

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me. ↗

— Charles Townshend

#cannot #does #end #expense #go

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#about #because #being #body #body fat

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#because #dream #food #happen #hard

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#because #day #down #hang #i

We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#because #love #music #play #play music

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#buying #deserve #going #know #lose