Why Quotes

• Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • Question
  • Trust

• Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Mind
  • Children
  • She

• I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Hair
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Bread
  • Powder

• Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

  

  John Keble
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Fear

• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Selfish

• You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Time
  • Yourself

• I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Up
  • Question
  • Single

• The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Why

• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Why
  • Weird

• If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Modern

• Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Why

• With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

  

  Johan Eliasch
  • Time
  • Today
  • Action

• If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Why
  • Door
  • Bird

• The Conservative Party must make its choice. Every leader is leader only with the support of his party. That is true of me too. That is why I am no longer prepared to tolerate the present situation. In short, it is time to put up or shut up.

  

  John Major
  • Up
  • Time
  • True

• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

  

  Mark Morris
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • She
  • Judging

• Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Job
  • Easy
  • Start

• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Air

• Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

  

  Kris Allen
  • World
  • Why

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