Why Quotes

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I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support. — Oliver Stone
If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it? — Malala Yousafzai
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.… — Malala Yousafzai
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't… — Malala Yousafzai
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison… — Mahatma Gandhi
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We… — Abdul Kalam
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again… — Margery Allingham
I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now.… — Eugene B. Sledge
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do… — Richard Sibbes
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He… — Samuel Rutherford
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never… — Peter Ackroyd
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you… — Paul Watson
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is… — Kate Bush
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth. — Soren Kierkegaard
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there… — E T A Hoffmann
I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.… — John Zorn
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage
Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage
I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me. — Jay Asher
The music is the void. And you're the reason why. — Gayle Forman

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