Understand Why Quotes

#1. Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.

Mitch Albom

#2. Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

George Meyer

#3. Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.

Kelly McGonigal

#4. If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

Bruce Chatwin

#5. I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that you should wear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if you aren't wearing heavy boots, then you need help.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

#7. Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why.

Fennel Hudson

#8. Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. I am a Soviet born American Jew. I was born in and left Soviet Union, while it was and in some cases still is, oppressive and socialist nation. I love America and being an American. I could never understand, why would people willingly give up their freedom!!

Jake Danishevsky

#10. I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Betty Buckley

#11. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

Jonathan Messinger

#12. You could never understand why I grind like I do
Makiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

Nicki Minaj

#13. It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?

Deyth Banger

#14. When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

Marvin Sapp

#15. The goal then is to understand why people did not or could not act differently. People acted the way they did for very good reasons; we need to understand why the behavior of the people involved made sense to them at the time

Nancy G. Leveson

#16. People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

Dan Chaon

#17. I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

John Waters

#18. I think I finally understand why God went away and left the world to destroy itself.

Blake Crouch

#19. My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

Samantha Bee

#20. And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.

Jon McGregor

#21. One day, beautiful, you will understand why every last goodbye led to your last first hello.

Hope Alcocer

#22. I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

Jewel

#23. there was a time I was dark, sad and a recluse
I did not understand why I felt like I did.Then my life changed.
I was diagnosed and suddenly my world made sense.

Tina J. Richardson

#24. No one had made her talk to me, or be in my company. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to the trouble just to be unpleasant.

Naomi Novik

#25. If He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely
surely He will lend an ear!

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#26. 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

#27. I also don't understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.

Katherine Applegate

#28. the ideas presented in this book culminate a century of research questioning the calorie balance model of obesity, and represent a fundamentally different way to understand why we gain weight and what we can do about it.7

David Ludwig

#29. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

Philip K. Dick

#30. He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.

Larry McMurtry

#31. I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#32. I don't understand why we're not allowed on the oder side of the fence. What's so wrong with us that we can't go there and play?

John Boyne

#33. We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

Dillon Burroughs

#34. I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

Steven Soderbergh

#35. Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

J. Ruth Gendler

#36. I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

#37. I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

Ken Burns

#38. Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Joe Biden

#39. I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Jordana Spiro

#40. Girls and boys, laughing and crying; for as they went home many of them found time to fight and make peace, to weep and play. I forgot my troubles in looking at them. And then, all those three years, I tried to understand why men should be for ever tormenting themselves.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#41. One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good.

Truman Capote

#42. I can understand why you want to hang with her, but seriously, what does she see in you?

Christine Feehan

#43. These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

Michael R. Burch

#44. The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.

Robin Sacredfire

#45. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job

Chris Murray

#46. So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Lindy Boggs

#47. I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

Richard A. Clarke

#48. He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Henry A. Kissinger

#49. I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

Will Self

#50. Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another day and understand why you lived in the day!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

L. M. Boyd

#52. There is so much of suffering that I will never even begin to understand. But I am content in believing that I don't even have to understand why the story unravels the way it does so long as I know that in the end everything will be all right.

Ann Tatlock

#53. In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but ... vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works ... the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.

Mark Christensen

#54. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.

Sapphire.

#55. I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.

John Green

#56. If you want to understand why you are here on earth, you must first examine who you are on the inside. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes. Everything you need to be great is already inside of you.

Detavio Samuels

#57. I couldn't understand why Frank would want to spend time with this crowd. They were bored, naughty children with highballs and morphine and sex for their toys. People were toys, too.

Paula McLain

#58. My point is pot is no more and probably less harmful than alcohol is. I don't understand the stigma of not legalizing marijuana. And I don't even smoke it. I don't understand why. I don't get it.

Julie Roginsky

#59. The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

#60. I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk?

Shannon L. Alder

#61. I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing ... and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

Kevin Sorbo

#62. fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are. My

Banana Yoshimoto

#63. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

Bernard Hill

#64. Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

Sean Covey

#65. Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man
and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is 'bad.

Frank Zappa

#66. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Salvador Dali

#67. I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.

Peter Loftin

#68. I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY

George Orwell

#69. I well understand why analysts demand high payment, for what can be more tedious than listening to another person recount his dreams?

Truman Capote

#70. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

#71. I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.

David James

#72. I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

John Cleese

#73. There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

Mary Crosby

#74. Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Lisa Randall

#75. I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

Tyler, The Creator

#76. I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Dennis Prager

#77. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.

John Assaraf

#78. As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

Andy Borowitz

#79. I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other.

Brock Adams

#80. Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

William Petersen

#81. I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

Dean Ornish

#82. If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all
both old and young.

Francois Rabelais

#83. Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#84. If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#85. Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.

Milan Kundera

#86. If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

Frances Bean Cobain

#87. I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.

Rory Kinnear

#88. You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which is hypocritical as hell after your ten years in Tirimo.

N.K. Jemisin

#89. Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Patricia Highsmith

#90. I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

Sinclair Lewis

#91. Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth.

Alex Berenson

#92. There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.

David Warner

#93. We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

Joe Elliott

#94. For sure, and we haven't found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I'm not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.

Philippe Falardeau

#95. I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

Holly Hunter

#96. That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Daniel Radcliffe

#97. We grow as best we can under the circumstances given us. What good does it do to second-guess ourselves years after the fact? Better that we simply try to understand why we are as we are and then better ourselves by learning from that.

Terry Brooks

#98. When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.

Yukio Mishima

#99. You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

#100. Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

Nina Lugovskaya