Understand Why Quotes
614 quotes by 492 authors
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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I…
— Simon Sinek
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I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
— Mike Tyson
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In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father,…
— Rufus Wainwright
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I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind…
— Julie Walters
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I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'
— Joss Whedon
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I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see…
— Rob Zombie
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A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything.…
— Evgeny Morozov
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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah,…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to…
— Charles Dickens
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when…
— Paulo Coelho
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Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to…
— Libba Bray
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Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at…
— Libba Bray
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For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of…
— Harper Lee
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to…
— Roald Dahl
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people…
— Frank Zappa
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I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are…
— Garth Stein
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