Why Quotes
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Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
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Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
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The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
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What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
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I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.
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I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
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I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
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Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here's the reason why - more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.
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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
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Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
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I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
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I kept all of my tickets from the New Kids concerts and stuff - wristband, ticket, pass. Why? They are all in a drawer. I never look at it, but I still keep it. It sparks joy, that is why. It sparks joy. That is fine!
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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
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It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
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There are people who just don't believe in the existence of a god. I don't know why because clearly, there is strong evidence that there's a god. But I believe that you serve all the people, not just those who profess to have faith but those with little or no faith. That's how you convert them.
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
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Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
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Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
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Well, it was very odd. And I, I just assumed this is what comes of being 42 and single. I don't know if they just needed to find a reason why I wasn't married.
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I've always been interested in this notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.
