Why Quotes
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?
So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.
Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?
Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.
Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.
I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies.