Why Quotes

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

~ Peter Thiel

If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.

~ Renee Ellmers

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

~ Marina Abramović

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.

~ Brian Greene

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

~ Claudette Colbert

One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'

~ Michio Kaku

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

~ Brie Larson

Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?

~ Donald Trump

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

~ Alexander Hamilton

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

~ Vicente Fox

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

~ John Edward Redmond

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.

~ Mitch Kapor

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

~ Paul Ryan

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

~ Billy Eichner

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

~ Lucy Liu

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

~ Barbara Coloroso

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

~ Terry Pratchett

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

~ Craig Bruce

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

~ Penelope Spheeris

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

~ Charles Tupper

When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.

~ Paul Cook

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

~ Travis Bradberry

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

~ John Updike

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

~ Franz Von Holzhausen

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?

~ Asif Kapadia

I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ever bought. It has 180,000 miles on it, and that is my daily whip. I take that everywhere. Don't forget where you came from, that's why I'll never get rid of that Jeep.

~ John Cena

If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car?

~ Travis Kalanick

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

~ Julia Roberts

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

~ Sundar Pichai

It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

~ Neil Harbisson

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.

~ Rufus Wainwright

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.

~ Tim Tebow

I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

~ Al Madrigal

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

~ Aaron Paul

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

~ Sandra Bullock