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

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

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

Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers. — Hope Mirrlees

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

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb? — Aaron Swartz

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

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself. — Ian Thorpe

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

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

Why are you smiling?" Amarissa had to ask.
Deandre smiled even harder. "Because I love you. — Aishabella Sheikh

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? — Steven Pinker

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

Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total. — Richard Ayoade

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...? — Anne Rouen

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

Nobody knows what they're doing here, so why do so many pretend they do? — Marty Rubin

Heroes never listen. That's why they're heroes. — Seanan McGuire

Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI. — Robert Rolih

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

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. — Anthony Robbins

Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts? — J.K. Rowling

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

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

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls. — Bob Brown

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

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

It's far more important why is being said, than what. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker

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

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

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? — Maggie Nelson

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 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

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. — Lauren Willig

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

Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter. — John Patrick Hickey

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

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds? — B.J. Novak

Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn't need a makeover. — Matt Chandler

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to. — John Ashbery

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

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood

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

You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?
Pierre Anthon — Janne Teller

Why is it better to last than to burn? — Roland Barthes

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently. — Ernest Rutherford

Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me. — Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Why can't I have my own life?! — Suzanna J. Linton

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships? — Nick Hornby

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

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

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

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials. — Richard Roeper

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

In truth it matters less what we do ... than how we do it and why. — Donna Farhi

Why are you doing this? — Morrissey

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out. — Meredith Brooks

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. — Bradford Cox

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

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food. — Daphne Oz

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

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous? — John Lyly

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

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own. — Jason Goodman

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

Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other ... — Jimmy Carr

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 do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop — S.E. Hinton

Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be done by me... — Deyth Banger

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. — Mark Helprin

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry? — Mike Horn

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

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins

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

When you know your WHY, you'll know your WAY. — Michael Hyatt

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

Don't. Don't ask me why. It's annoying. I want to. That's it. That's all. So let me. — Michelle Hodkin

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card? — Emma McLaughlin

Go ahead, jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? — Mrs. Danvers

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

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear? — Barry Cryer

Jamie: Are you trying to seduce me? Landon: Why? Are you seducible? — Nicholas Sparks