Why Quotes

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

~ Kapil Sibal

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

~ Chevy Chase

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

~ Roxane Gay

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

~ Pamela Anderson

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.

~ Piet Mondrian

I'm not the kind of person to jump into a relationship with a guy. I do a lot of figuring out about the person and his background, what he wants, and why he is interested in me.

~ Sofia Richie

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

~ Marcus Garvey

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

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why be a man when you can be a success?

~ Bertolt Brecht

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

~ Danny Thomas

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

Why should poetry have to make sense?

~ Charlie Chaplin

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

~ Mark Haddon

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

~ Carl Sandburg

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

~ Robert Kennedy

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

~ John Locke

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

~ Martha Graham

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

~ Tracy Morgan

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

~ Crystal Bowersox

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

~ José Rizal

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

~ Ron Fournier

If you never change your mind, why have one?

~ Edward De Bono

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

~ Cliff Burton

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

~ John Updike

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

~ Eric Schlosser

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

~ Paul Mccartney

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

~ Ricardo Semler

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

~ Judy Garland

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

~ Audre Lorde

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

~ Anne Wojcicki

We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.

~ Suzan Delbene

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

~ David Frum

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

~ Garrett Hardin

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

~ Gale Norton

There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism.

~ Kishore Chandra Deo

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

~ Ian Mackaye