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Because Quotes by Rita Dove
- To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really…
- The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from…
- I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
- I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
- I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not…
- It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their…
More Because Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle