Why Quotes

22640 Why quotes by 9675 unique authors

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly… — Norton Juster
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things?… — Norton Juster
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only… — Alexandra Fuller
The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life. — Wilhelm Reich
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest… — Jared Diamond
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? — Jared Diamond
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,… — Jared Diamond
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of… — Jared Diamond
If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals? — Stirling Moss
Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their… — Tucker Max
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard
Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what… — Marguerite Henry
Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live… — Marguerite Henry
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of… — Fuzzy Zoeller
You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where… — Iyanla Vanzant
Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist, — Roberto Cavalli
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member”. I… — Gough Whitlam
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. — Bob Hawke
This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself. — Ian Thorpe
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex… — William McDonough
Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful?… — Augusten Burroughs
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan… — Fred Thompson

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