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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

Why do you have to be so damn wonderful all the time? Especially now!"
"I can't help it. I am what I am. — Ashlan Thomas

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

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents. — George Whitefield

Olivia responded with confidence, "You're the military. You're in charge. Why would I be scared? — Jettie Necole

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time? — Agatha Christie

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded. — Drake

Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth? — Robin Sharma

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing. — Tim Crouch

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous. — Ben Elton

That's why you shouldn't make vows. The moment you do, fate starts conspiring to shove them down your throat. — Michael J. Sullivan

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant. — Art Linkletter

Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good. — Victoria Osteen

Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they accomplished, why am I cold. — Sylvia Plath

It was quite obvious what she was to me, it was so clear why I always wanted her near. She was simply the air I breathed. As — Brittainy C. Cherry

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator. — Spike Lee

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 don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything. — W.C. Fields

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why. — David Copperfield

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that. — Chino Moreno

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it. — Kenneth E. Boulding

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. — E. M. Forster

Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place. — Steve Caballero

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it. — George R R Martin

The world always looks nicer when it's a little blurry - that's why so many of us have a second glass of wine at dinner. — Jenny Lawson

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water? — Michelle Moran

It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did. — Paulette Jiles

Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God. — Mary Roach

I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great? — Jourdan Dunn

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So that's why vampires are so pissed off all the time? Because their junk's gone rusty? — S.L.J. Shortt

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? — Horace

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up. — Mark Valley

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg

At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why, — Marlon Brando

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. — C.S. Lewis

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed ... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them. — George R R Martin

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

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. — Michel De Montaigne

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. — Patricia Wentworth

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon

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

God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that's why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry. — Sunday Adelaja

You're the reason why I'm fighting here. You're the meaning of my life. And as long as you need me, I keep alive. — Hotaru Odagiri

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

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

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine

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

Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon? — Kurt Vonnegut

Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog ... — Dana Gould

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. — Paul Cezanne

..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age? — Dick Van Dyke

I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell. — Rebekah Armusik

Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun? — Richelle Mead

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge. — Werner Herzog

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes. — Natalie Babbitt

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? — William Booth

Remember? I'm the one who keeps you safe. I'm the one that would die for you and all that? why, want me to prove my loyalty? — Rachel Van Dyken

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. — Danger Mouse

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". — Israelmore Ayivor

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. — Cloris Leachman

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth? — Stephenie Meyer

Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? — L.M. Montgomery

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. — Jaleigh Johnson

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste? — Jaclyn Moriarty

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. — Brian Schmidt

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

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important. — Maya Tiwari

If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. — Cora Reilly

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world. — Bruce Springsteen

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ... — Tiffany FitzHenry

Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in its place. — Brownell Landrum

The dream is yours ... why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within. — Steve Maraboli

You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson. — Leon Brown

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress? — Fall Out Boy

This is why people need God - because people are awful, even the good ones. — Amy Gentry

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists? — Aldous Huxley

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it. — George S. Clason

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction. — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Now, the truth is the one you won't forget. — Jay Asher

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer? — William Arthur Ward

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books. — Lauren Willig

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

All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain. — Joan D. Vinge

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? — Robin Williams

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic

Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. — Mark T. Barnes