Why Quotes
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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
Kabir
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Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.
Georg Brandes
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I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?
Elizabeth Reaser
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin
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I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.
Art Alexakis
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
Lois Wyse
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.
John Davidson
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I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
James Gandolfini
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Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?
Andy Sawford
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The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
Banana Yoshimoto
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The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.
Napoleon Hill
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When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
Jenova Chen
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Why would I want to train at that bum gym? I train with my own people, I have since day one. That man needs to get his facts straight before I roll in there and buy that gym.
Conor McGregor
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Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.
John Ridley
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When I was 26, I got pregnant. I decided to have the baby because I accept everything in life as an adventure. I accept life. I couldn't see why you would not accept it.
Vicky Krieps
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I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.
Alexandra Roach
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Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.
Joanne Rowling
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
Archie Panjabi
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Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.
J. D. Salinger
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
Linus Torvalds
