Why Quotes

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I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets. — Unknown Author
Fulham haven't had a shot on target, which is probably why they aren't in the goals. — Tony Cottee
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why… — Laurence Sterne
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the… — Peggy Noonan
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? — Zaha Hadid
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace
Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to… — Bobby Fischer
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them… — Graham Nash
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink.… — Nikki Sixx
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed… — Desmond Tutu
You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love. — Barack Obama
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was… — Rahul Dravid

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