Why Quotes

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Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every… — Jonathan Carroll
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me? — Bette Greene
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why… — Carol S. Dweck
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator. — Spike Lee
You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football? — Andres Iniesta
A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but… — Yehuda Amichai
I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something… — Mary Pierce
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than… — Fred Hoyle
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. — Steven Weinberg
I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now… — Steve Marriott
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game. — Mordecai Richler
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under… — Siri Hustvedt
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire. — Tanya Tucker
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. — David Chalmers
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need… — Noah Feldman
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too… — Jodi Picoult
I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up… — Stephanie Perkins
Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's… — Stephanie Perkins
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe,… — Seth Lloyd
When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it… — Wilma Rudolph
Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone — Tracy Chapman
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we… — Dean Kamen
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional… — Peter Thiel

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