Asked Why Quotes

117 quotes by 108 authors

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. — Bernard Baruch
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but… — Sarah Bernhardt
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration,… — Michael Chertoff
In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure,… — Lowell Thomas
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the… — Richard Mercer Dorson
Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my… — Alice Stewart
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.… — John F. Kennedy
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and… — William Cosmo Monkhouse
If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been… — Loraine Boettner
I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people… — Kristen Bell
I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I… — Madonna Ciccone
Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV.… — Arianna Huffington
But oftentimes I'm asked: Why? Why do you care what happens outside of America? — George W. Bush
Iâ€™m frequently asked why I donâ€™t write my memoirs. I think I have. — Pauline Kael
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much… — George Thorndike Angell
A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does." — Honor Tracy
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my… — Kristan Higgins

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