Why Quotes

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.