Why Quotes
22640 Why quotes by 9675 unique authors
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I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything,…
— Sandra Lee
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That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have…
— Ronda Rousey
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Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We…
— Paul Lockhart
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Why are some things easier to write than say?
— Ally Condie
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Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving let's you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the…
— Ally Condie
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It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have…
— Barry Diller
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I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?
— Chris Kirkpatrick
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I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth…
— Gary Lightbody
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That’s why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that’s why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday,…
— Matt Redman
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Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful.…
— Gretchen Rubin
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I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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In a world that’s gone hellishly mad we’ve always taken comfort in the fact that the faith of our fathers is the one thing that…
— Lon Milo DuQuette
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Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
— Curtis Jackson
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Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies…
— M.C. Escher
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Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us…
— Roger Scruton
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships…
— Roger Waters
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I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how and, maybe even most importantly, why?
— Ted Bundy
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
— Mark Doty
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most,…
— William Styron
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