Why Quotes
22640 Why quotes by 9675 unique authors
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's…
— Gail Porter
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In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This…
— Virginia Graham
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Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming…
— Lottie Moon
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One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold…
— Lottie Moon
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The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of opportunity to interact…
— Rosemary M. Wixom
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People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice…
— Richey Edwards
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You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that…
— Richey Edwards
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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do…
— Gordon Bethune
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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature,…
— Mary MacLane
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I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin'…
— Mickey Rivers
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on…
— Carole Maso
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We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and…
— Mario Balotelli
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When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather…
— Radhanath Swami
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Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun.…
— Steve Almond
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We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.
— George Harrison
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They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice.…
— George Harrison
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Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge ...…
— George Harrison
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Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at…
— George Harrison
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Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say,…
— Isabella Blow
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You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s…
— Philip Treacy
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing…
— Bianca Jagger
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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always…
— Eva Zeisel
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A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why…
— Arnold Beichman
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