Quotes About Why You Do Something

#1. Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#2. 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Nora Roberts

#3. I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.

Judd Winick

#4. Porfiry smoked with professional determination.

R.N. Morris

#5. I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

Kyra Sedgwick

#6. A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.

Erin Davie

#7. For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#8. Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

Elliott Colla

#9. Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.

Alberto Manguel

#10. The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

Rene Cassin

#11. It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.

J.R. Moehringer

#12. It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Alan Shepard

#13. Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Simone Weil