Why Quotes
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I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
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I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.
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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
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As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
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We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.
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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
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Truscott: Why aren't you both at the funeral? I thought you were mourners.Fay: We decided not to go. We were afraid we might break down.Truscott: That's a selfish attitude to take. The dead can't bury themselves, you know.
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It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers.
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The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
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I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
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Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
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It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.
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The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
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If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
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With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
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If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.
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Horrible bosses may be one of the reasons why we decide to leave a company, but they can also teach us how not to lead teams when we have that responsibility.
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One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.
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Why aren’t we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?
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I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?
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From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.
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I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
