Why Quotes

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I remember when I was a kid that the only way to see Hulk Hogan wrestle was you'd have to go to the live shows. He was never on TV. So I thought "Why not do the same thing?"

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.