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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask… — M.F.K. Fisher
That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened. — Brett Favre
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over;… — J M Coetzee
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden,… — Conrad Veidt
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends. — Minnie Driver
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why… — Cornelia Fort
It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there. — John C. Maxwell
Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty.… — David Wallace
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest… — David Foster Wallace
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy… — Andrew Stanton
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,… — June Jordan
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition. — Fernando Flores
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my… — Chuck Klosterman
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and… — Dean Ornish
Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also… — John Vianney
So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? — Paul Ryan
It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on… — Marilyn Manson
That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year. — Ryan Reynolds
What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right,… — Spencer Haywood
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely… — Lewis H. Lapham
The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had… — Peggy Noonan
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves… — Ann Althouse
All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it? — Unknown Author

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