Why Quotes
22640 Why quotes by 9675 unique authors
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When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the…
— James Howe
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
— Abbie Hoffman
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Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off…
— George Thorogood
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Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
— Nick Hornby
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship…
— Nick Hornby
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So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing…
— Bethenny Frankel
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Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?
— Unknown Author
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There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
— Harriet Quimby
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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept…
— Albert Ayler
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Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
— Ornette Coleman
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people…
— Olga Korbut
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What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said, 'No…
— Jonathan Ive
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I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was…
— John Sculley
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If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can’t, then you’ve got to think like they think,
— Walter Mischel
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
— Christiane Amanpour
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Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror…
— Massad Ayoob
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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my…
— Jonathan Carroll
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