Why Quotes

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Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But… — Margaret Thatcher
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened… — Drew Brees
Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot… — Stephen King
I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been… — Ed McBain
The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other… — Don Mattingly
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties… — Richard P. Feynman
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. — Erwin Schrodinger
People from other teams want to play in St. Louis and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why… — Albert Pujols
I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why. — Elisabeth Elliot
Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right… — Jesse Helms
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? — Jesse Helms
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?' — Gore Vidal
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History… — Gore Vidal
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give… — Andrea Dworkin
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make… — Unknown Author
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult… — William Empson
Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it. — Dave Barry
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves… — Nicolas Berggruen
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three… — Jayne Ann Krentz
I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this… — Cynthia Nixon
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by… — David Brooks
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur — Nicholas D. Kristof

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