Why Quotes

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

~ Joel Osteen

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

~ Henry Van Dyke

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.

~ Bobby Bowden

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

~ Kelly Wearstler

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

~ David Mccullough

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

~ Marc Newson

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

~ Mitch Hedberg

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

~ Chip Conley

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

~ Nick Hanauer

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

~ George Fox

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

~ Garry Kasparov

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

~ Phyllis Diller

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

~ Ed Wood

You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

~ Dax Shepard

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

~ Bobby Knight

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

~ Albert Barnes

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

~ Shannen Doherty

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

~ Michael Jackson

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

~ Ramakrishna

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

~ Robert Reich

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

~ Cybill Shepherd

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

~ Linda Blair

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

~ Bob Hope

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

~ Zachary Levi

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

~ Paul Shaffer

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

~ Glenn Howerton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

~ Edward Norton

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

~ John Calvin

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

~ Kate Winslet

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

~ Sandra Bullock

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

~ Donald Trump

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

~ Bernard Baruch

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

~ Harvey Mackay

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

~ Rush Limbaugh

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

~ Paul Ryan

It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

~ Sam Graves

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

~ Jack Keane

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

~ Vicente Fox