Asked Why Quotes
117 quotes by 108 authors
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But oftentimes I'm asked: Why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?
— George W. Bush
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I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
— Pauline Kael
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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