Why Quotes

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?