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The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?
— John Paul Warren
We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.
— James B. Martino
We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.
— Shigeo Shingo
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
— David Brooks
Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world?
— Rick Yancey
They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different
— Kevin Keegan
I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.
— Albert Hadley
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
— Edna O'Brien
You can give me a thousand reasons why not to do something, but give me one good reason why, and I'll do it.
— Lorraine Holloway-White
I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
— Diane Kruger
Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it.
— Nathan Hale
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient foolArt thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
— Rene Descartes
Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente
I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful.
— Dennis Quaid
You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.
— Lemony Snicket
The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
— Marty Rubin
No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.
— Christopher Paul Curtis
Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
— Dillon Burroughs
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
— Jared Diamond
People are douche bags. Many people. Not all. But you know, most.Which is why we destroyed the world. — Christopher Moore
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
— Charles Dickens
But what was it with kids? Why was it that kids always had to dig whatever the wound, even deeper? Like bats radaring in to suck blood.
— Gloria Murphy
Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
— Jimi Hendrix
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.
— David Letterman
I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.
— Ingrid Pitt
I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage.
— P.G. Wodehouse
No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.
— Christopher Moore
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die — Alfred Tennyson
I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
— Roger Ebert
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.
— Thomas Sadoski
Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.
— William Kamkwamba
Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?""I solve them all" said the snake — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Why do you need to gallop while you fly?""Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right. — Rick Riordan
Heath Ledger died from the joker, so far the darkness killed him... but why we don't explore it?
— Deyth Banger
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
— Robert Browning
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
— Paul McCartney
Not the why but the what.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Everyone runs away from something, but who are you running to? Who are you running with? Why are you running for? Why run at all?
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
— Justine Bateman
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
— Sherman Alexie
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Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
— Pauline Kael
This was it. Kiyomi realized it now. This was what her heart had reacted to. Her heart thrilled to mitochondria.But why? — Hideaki Sena
People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
— Margaret Cho
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
— Robert Fulghum
I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him.
— Nicky Morgan
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.
— John Baldwin Buckstone
Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.
— April Mae Monterrosa
But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.
— Sarah Addison Allen
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
— Ellen Goodman
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
— Margaret Atwood
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
— Bret Easton Ellis
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
— Stephenie Meyer
It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
— Keith Rabois
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
— Ellen Glasgow
Whenever I think of him... I don't know why, but my chest feels so tight, it's hard to breathe. I need to keep it secret just a little bit longer.
— Naoko Takeuchi
I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
— Maurizio Cattelan
But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.
— Anna Friel
Why wasn't my time spent helping people instead of a puppy? I don't know and I don't care but at least I saved something.
— Jay Kopelman
They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
— Russell Means
He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why do people wish to be silly?
— Charles Portis
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?
— William Badke
Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.
— Phyllis Diller
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
— Ian Astbury
He didn't understand religion. It was like heroin or golf: He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn't understand why.
— Christopher Moore
Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
— Peter Kreeft
I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.
— Hugh Masekela
Actually Gabriel's an archangel," I corrected. "But otherwise, yes.""Well, that explains why he's so hard to impress," said Xavier flippantly — Alexandra Adornetto
