Knows Why Quotes
66 quotes by 60 authors
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Who knows why men do anything?
— Richard Adams
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Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
— Frederick Lenz
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A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him…
— Rajneesh
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
— Martin Gore
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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth…
— Steve Martin
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Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It…
— John C. McGinley
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The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
— Alanis Morissette
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There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give…
— Michael Cunningham
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.
— Christopher Moore
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Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride…
— Takehiko Inoue
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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them…
— Virginia Woolf
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Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish…
— James Thurber
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The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around…
— Terry Pratchett
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Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members…
— Sloane Crosley
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Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one…
— Neal Shusterman
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it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I…
— Hudson Taylor
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