Why Quotes

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Faith

• I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

  

  Brett Dalton
  • Why
  • Kitchen

• A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

  

  Future
  • Why
  • Happy

• Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Moments
  • Superficial

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Mom

• I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Why
  • Need
  • Hollywood

• For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Funny

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice

• Hell, that's why they make erasers.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Why

• Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Perfect
  • City
  • Car

• By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Small

• My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Time
  • Long
  • True

• I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People
  • Fun
  • Singing

• I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • People
  • True
  • Strong

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Model

• My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

  

  Shakira
  • Why

• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Doors

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