Why Quotes

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Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a… — Gilles Deleuze
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop. — Doug E. Fresh
There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is… — Jakaya Kikwete
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it… — Greil Marcus
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid… — Hunter S. Thompson
And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? — Ward Churchill
If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best? — Garrett Morgan
I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an… — Sebastian Coe
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self… — Anne Enright
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know… — Romain Rolland
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters… — Matthew Henry
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a… — Dennis Rodman
Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my… — Dennis Rodman
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and… — Jerry Garcia
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only… — Lawrence Lessig
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently. — Joseph Murray
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter.… — Charles Grandison Finney
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow. — Zelda Fitzgerald
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have… — Jeanette Winterson
If you win power, remember why you wanted it. — John Marston
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… — C.S. Lewis

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