Why Quotes

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

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.

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.

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

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.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.

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.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.