Top 100 Why Are You Quotes
#1. If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
Hudson Taylor
#2. Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret?
Mr. Raymond: Because you're children and you can understand it.
Harper Lee
#3. Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
Bridget Kelly
#4. Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent ... ?
Shusaku Endo
#6. The first time I came back to Watford, my second year, I climbed right into my bed and cried like a baby. I was still crying when Baz came in. "Why are you already weeping?" he snarled. "You're ruining my plans to push you to tears.
Rainbow Rowell
#7. Lynx, why are you staring at me like that?" she asked. He straightened and shrugged. "I was just thinking how close I came to losing you. Now that I have you, Callie, I can't imagine my life without you."
-Calinda & Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#8. I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.
Johnny Carson
#9. My office is trashed," he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. "Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.
Kim Harrison
#10. We're late," she said, "The show is supposed to start in ten minutes. If some people hadn't decided that 'semiformal' meant 'seminaked'-"
"Why are you calling me 'some people'?" Mark inquired. "I am only one person.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am ... well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.
Alex Haley
#14. Why is he following me? Why are you following me?" He grabbed her arm. "D'Sayre is trying to learn your secrets. Me? I just want a kiss." He pulled her into his embrace and pressed his lips to hers.
Laurel O'Donnell
#15. The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?
Storm Jameson
#16. Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
#17. Can I get back to fucking your brains out now?" Thomas grinned. "You forget how to be a Master? Why are you asking?
Joey W. Hill
#18. If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?
Elizabeth Eulberg
#19. I could reach great heights with your love,and with longing for you
I will increase a hundredfold.
They ask, why are you circling him?
O ignorance, I am circling myself.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#20. Hey,"he said, taking in my disheveled appearance. "Why are you up so early?"
"Oh, I was just, you know, exercising."I jogged in place for a second before realizing that I probably looked like a mental patient.
Rachel Hawkins
#21. God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have."
Jim Cymbala
#22. If I hadn't liked Logan before, I would now at how he is handling all of this. he chuckles as we reach the door.
"Why are you chuckling?" I ask.
"You were jealous." He's definitely smug, though I can't blame him.
L.A. Fiore
#23. Daughter, "Daddy, do rice and beans really make you grow big and strong?"
Dad, "Yes."
Daughter,"Are you sure?"
Dad,"Yes."
Daughter, "Then why are you so short?
Peter Rogers
#24. If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled.
"To be the little spoon.
Karen Chance
#25. O dear Himalaya ... why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak ... O dear Himalaya ...
Santosh Kalwar
#26. [ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.
Jose Saramago
#27. Brooke, why don't we talk about you instead? You seem much more interesting." I started feeling frustrated. "I'm sure that's not true. Why are you so mysterious?
S. Walden
#28. A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
Stephen King
#29. I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?
Zooey Deschanel
#30. If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister Eckhart
#31. Jesus said, "You of little faith! Why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread?" Matthew 16:8
Beth Moore
#32. Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, Because I like your face.
Mia Sheridan
#33. If you wouldn't say those things to someone else you love, why are you saying them to yourself?
Elaina Marie
#34. If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
Cory Doctorow
#35. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. Why are you so determined to destroy yourself?" I say, and my voice is very small.
"I don't know," he whispers back. "Why are you?
Brenna Yovanoff
#37. Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on.
Tim Rice
#38. All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?
I sat very diligently, she said.
Robin McKinley
#39. When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?He says, So my master will suffer loss.
Shams Tabrizi
#40. Why are you fighting this? You want it as much as I do. You're p*ssy's so wet I could swim in it. Did I mention I love to swim?
Sabrina Garie
#41. I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul." She asked him: "Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?", and he said: "Because I love Paul.
Harry Nilsson
#42. You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
Judith Jamison
#43. Why are you going to let people who are hell-bent on not forgiving you keep you from something that could actually be great?
Katie Cotugno
#44. Jamie: Are you trying to seduce me? Landon: Why? Are you seducible?
Nicholas Sparks
#45. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?
Hilary Mantel
#46. We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds.
(Carter says I should tell you why it's called that. It's a cave full of all sorts of birds. Again
duh. [Carter, why are you banging your head against the table?])
Rick Riordan
#47. Why are you fighting like this? You're acting like Reece and Ridley.
Kami Garcia
#48. You made a mistake, and sadly time travel has not yet been invented, so why are you still thinking about it?
Dave Guerrero
#49. It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?
Shaun Tan
#50. If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?
Terry Goodkind
#51. I could almost imagine him as a leader of men without laughing hysterically. [Why are you glaring at me, Carter? That was quite a generous description.] Carter
Rick Riordan
#52. You're not a fucking backup plan, Cami! Why are you letting someone treat you like one?
Jamie McGuire
#53. Why are you so upset? Why do you look like you've just lost your heart? Because the guy you've wanted for so long finally wants to be with you? Or because the guy you actually love thinks the worst of you?
Brynna Gabrielson
#54. Why are you so pissed off? he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. Sometimes I wondered if Dex actually had any recollection of 90% of the conversations he was involved with.
Karina Halle
#55. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.
Anonymous
#56. Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.
Cassandra Clare
#58. Are you a peice of Saran Wrap?
No
Well then why are you acting so clingy?
Lisi Harrison
#59. When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.
Plutarch
#60. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?
John Taylor Gatto
#61. Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian)
Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha)
Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Why are you constantly escorting me places?" I say. "Isn't there a depraved activity you're supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?
Veronica Roth
#63. Why are you so angry? I've come back for you and this is how you greet me? (Morgan)
You've come back for me? Oh, how delightful. Shall I put on my best gown or should I just fall down on my knees in gratitude that you finally remembered I exist? (Serenity)
Kinley MacGregor
#64. I'm bored of this. I want to hear about you. Favorite color. Go."
I laugh. "Green."
"I'm green!"
"Fuck yeah you are."
"Why are you laughing? Isn't this what friends do?"
"Interrogate each other?"
"What? Uh, sure. I don't know what that means. But yes.
Hannah Moskowitz
#65. Blake: Why are you always trying to ruin my relationships?
Ayden: What relationships?
Blake: Jen and I have been going steady for at least ten minutes now.
Jen: *Snorts*
Ayden: And we've gone from creepy to delusional.
Matthais: *Drags Blake way.*
A&E Kirk
#66. Dear little Bog-Face,
Why are you so cold?
And why do you lie with your eyes shut?
You are not very old.
I am a Child of this World
And a Child of Grace,
And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over,
I am Bog-Face.
Stevie Smith
#67. I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.
Simon Cowell
#68. 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
#69. Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life?
Cheon Eunbi
#70. Marie: So why are you called Horse?
Horse: Cause I'm hung like one.
Joanna Wylde
#71. The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.
Madonna Ciccone
#72. My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What's important about you? Why does the customer need you?
Sara Blakely
#73. Why are you taking your breasts away?"
-Dane "Cernunnos" Hearne
Katie MacAlister
#74. Why are you toying with me?" His breath was unstable. "You're driving me mad.
Nely Cab
#75. Mine.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Emelia's plump lips quirked.
"Like what?"
"Like you want to eat me."
Ah, hell.
Kristin Miller
#76. Brothers, why are you here?" He looked
astonished, even perturbed.
"We come to help."
"I thought the monks and priests were to be in the church, praying."
"We pray with our feet," answered Anseau.
"Tell us how we can help.
D.W. Koons
#77. Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
Iyanla Vanzant
#78. What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
John Green
#79. Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked ...
'Because I love them so much.
Ruta Sepetys
#81. They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?
Brian K. Vaughan
#82. Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.
Angel Gonzalez
#83. If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
Josemaria Escriva
#84. You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said.
"For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling."
...
"Yes, it's a fact," she said.
"What?"
"I love you.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#85. why are you ending our engagement then?"
"Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel)
"I don't understand."
"I know
Jayne Castle
#86. Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?
Colin Beavan
#87. The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#88. It's life. Everyone is destined for the same ending. Why are you going to hold a grudge at the timing?
Holly Hood
#89. Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?
Augustine Of Hippo
#90. 35. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?
Epictetus
#91. Isabella: "Why are you being so mean to me?"
Harry: "Because i love you"
Isabella: "Does that ever work?"
Harry: "On my mother it does."
Isabella: "I'm not your mother."
Harry: "I know that already, because I'm enjoying your company.
Claire LaZebnik
#92. Why are you crying?"
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.
Sarah J. Maas
#93. What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#94. Why are you such an asshat?"
"An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.
Cassandra Clare
#95. But why are you giving this to me if you don't believe?"
"Because I know that you do.
Adria J. Cimino
#96. What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same?
Doubt you'd be happy.
So, why are you afraid of change?
Karen Salmansohn
#97. Namorita: Why are you horning in on my action? Orka's an Atlantean criminal. I had the situation perfectly under control.
Nova: Yeah, I could tell that from the way you were hitting his fist with your face.
-- New Warriors (Vol 2) #0
Jay Faerber
#98. Didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear
William Peter Blatty
#99. I have things to tell you, but I don't think there's any point. It's like you took a can opener and peeled the lid off my heart and leaped out the day Will died. Why are you so silent? Of all times to leave me alone.
Jenny B. Jones
#100. Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
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