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I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
— Sunday Adelaja
Well ... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.
— Colin Quinn
Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.
— Pierre De Marivaux
Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. — James Joyce
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. — James Joyce
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions ... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
— Virginia Woolf
Why are you ordering food? We're here to drink and dance with cowboys. Not eat, Bethy said angrily.
She could fuck off. — Abbi Glines
She could fuck off. — Abbi Glines
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
— Dorothea Dix
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
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.
— Fran Lebowitz
There's not to reason why,
There's but to do and die — Alfred Tennyson
There's but to do and die — Alfred Tennyson
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
the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those
— Yuval Noah Harari
We build too many walls and not enough bridges." Why
— Chris Luke
And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.
— Jude Morgan
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
— May Sarton
And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
— Buck Owens
Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans
— Muhammad Ali
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
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
— Sojourner Truth
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.
— Robertson Davies
Which was one reason why Revolt of the Zombie Strippers was being shot in Gallup and not in a warehouse in Van Nuys.
— Janet Evanovich
I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest.
— Robin Sacredfire
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco ... I think my country helped me.
— J.K. Rowling
Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?
— Sara Sheridan
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
— Nhat Hanh
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.
— Oliver Sacks
Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some
— Jane Hirshfield
Why hasn't Marie shot you yet?" "Because I'm not in denial about what my cock wants," Horse replied. "I piss her off, I get no pussy. Watch and learn.
— Joanna Wylde
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.
— James Joyce
I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
And if we were meant only to labor, why give us minds, why give us desires? Why can we not be as cattle in the field, or chickens in their coops?
— Robert Jackson Bennett
The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
— Macklemore
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
— Mark Twain
Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
— James C. Collins
I don't care about the future," she said. "Why not concentrate on the present and hold me?
— Victoria Vane
I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.
— Catullus
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
— Pippa Middleton
If I can score goals, then why not, I think the fans will love to see that. I have a big career looking ahead and I want to impress.
— Royston Drenthe
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
— Garrison Keillor
Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.
— Owen Wilson
[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.
— Sean Sasser
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
— Bob Colacello
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
— George Bernard Shaw
Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
— Bob Weinstein
Why?" he screamed, letting the noise bellow out loud and ferocious. "Why can I not have some measure of peace?" he questioned.
— Charlotte Featherstone
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
— Olga Kurylenko
But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.
— Carl Sagan
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
— Robert F. Kennedy
The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not
— Gary Taubes
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
— Charles Dickens
The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
She sighed and said, "Why not us? Who knows whether you were given this opportunity for such a time as this?"
-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal
-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal
Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse
I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.
— Jerry Yang
I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.
— Deborah King
Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why. — Ron W. Rathbun
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why. — Ron W. Rathbun
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
— Julian Assange
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
I have been asked, politely and not so politely, why I am myself. This is an accounting any woman will be called on to give if she asserts her will.
— Andrea Dworkin
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
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
Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
— Takeda Shingen
I figured, 'Why not put goggle characteristics like peripheral protection and face fit into sunglasses?'
— James Jannard
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Pierre Anthon — Janne Teller
Man ate angels' food of old - and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?
— Mika.
People Trust Me with their secrets, and I'm not sure why. It must be something in my face, probably my eyes.
— James Patterson
I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.
— Mariel Hemingway
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
They're pretty conspicuous."
"Why? Are they green and horny?" I willed a blush away and said, "I mean, as in having horns,not ... the other. — Rachel Hawkins
"Why? Are they green and horny?" I willed a blush away and said, "I mean, as in having horns,not ... the other. — Rachel Hawkins
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
— Vaclav Havel
Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have come and why.
— Jan Hellriegel
It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
— Sandra Lee
You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.
— Kim Dotcom
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die — Alfred Tennyson
Theirs but to do and die — Alfred Tennyson
I am passionate and curious. I want to know why and why not.
— Debasish Mridha
Robin did not know why the announcement that Strike was off to meet Elin should lower her spirits.
— Robert Galbraith
I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.
— Ben Roethlisberger
Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
— Elizabeth Berg