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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

Senna's case was not why did he crash or who was to blame, but why — Max Mosley

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

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children. — Johnny Hunt

I wanted to break you," I murmured against the blood. "I wanted to destroy you, ruin you. But you would not break. You will not break. Why won't you? — Karina Halle

I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland. — Hannah Kent

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'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.' — Eve

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 fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken. — Wesley King

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

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds. — Pia Toscano

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

I didn't know why, or who, but I could buy those answers with money and time. One, I had plenty of. The other, I'd have to manufacture. — C.D. Reiss

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him? — Wale

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

I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines. — M. Leighton

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

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me. — Langston Hughes

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract. — Elie Wiesel

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

I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady. — Ester Dean

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

But, O alas! so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear? — John Donne

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it? — Elliott Smith

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

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. — Thomas Szasz

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 fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy. — Pauly Shore

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

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue. — Yancy Butler

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

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

Why is it?.. I'm so sad and so lonely. But the tears just won't come. — Hiro Mashima

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

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married? — Nancy Pelosi

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

No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits. — Nick Hornby

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

The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born. — Auliq Ice

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

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text? — Gayle King

Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border? — Pablo Casals

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

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. — William Johnson Cory