Why Quotes

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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary.… — Robert Harris
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. — Alistair Cooke
I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them. — Seve Ballesteros
Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match? — Walter Hagen
Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair? — Pete Dye
This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two. — Richard Armour
We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce… — Janet Morris
I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't… — Sally Ride
My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always… — Marian Seldes
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't… — John Legend
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is. — Douglas Horton
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking."… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced! — Guy Finley
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. — William Shakespeare
To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting… — John Ortberg
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility… — Bruce Barton
Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see… — Michael Bay
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is… — Harry J. Anslinger
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs… — Ron Paul
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why… — Hillary Clinton
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the… — Adolf Hitler

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