Best Why People Proverbs

378 Why People quotes by 331 unique authors

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from… — Paulo Coelho
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they… — Robin Wasserman
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are… — Garth Stein
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. — Maeve Binchy
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling… — Joan Lowery Nixon
I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of… — Rodman Philbrick
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop… — Robert A. Heinlein
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow… — Tite Kubo
There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were… — Nora Roberts
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure… — Ibi Kaslik
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But… — Robert A. Heinlein
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and… — Henry Rollins
I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in… — Silas House
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,… — Christopher McDougall
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That… — Anthony de Mello
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers — Stephenie Meyer
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are… — Jodi Picoult
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations… — Mark Haddon
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together… — Xiaolu Guo
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most… — Steven Erikson

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