Know Why Quotes

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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb
When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know… — Lisa Leslie
You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court. — Marat Safin
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB. — Thom Yorke
I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make. — James Patterson
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller! — Alain Prost
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is… — Sean O'Casey
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth. — Alfred Worden
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends. — Minnie Driver
It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there. — John C. Maxwell
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm… — Sasha Azevedo
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as… — Allegra Goodman
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That… — Ingmar Bergman
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a… — E. Stanley Jones
She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing… — Bobby Petrino
I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't know why that… — Richard Roxburgh
You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. — Russell Chatham
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50… — Joan Collins
When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward. — Paulo Coelho

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