#just because

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #between #cruel #facts #foes

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#because #just #just because #says #somebody

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#any #because #bodies #feel #feel good

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#clean #feel #i #i feel #just

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#another #because #been #behind #cast

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#anything #because #considered #dangerous #early

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. ↗

— Ron Kind

#against #america #asian #because #black

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#because #give #glamorous #growing #growing up

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#been #crappy #going #got #i