Top 100 Why Do We Need Quotes
#1. There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
Farah Diba
#2. Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
Hamza Yusuf
#3. Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#4. Breakup is hard enough to live with, why do we need the paperwork of divorce.
Nilesh Rathod
#5. Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.
Greg Giraldo
#6. It's the same reason I don't get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
Tina Fey
#7. If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
Doug Harvey
#8. We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Abu Bakar Bashir
#9. We need to get you to stop thinking of me as a friend, and start thinking of me as that incredibly hot mechanic you're sleeping with."
"You are a friend, why do we need to do that?"
"Because you're stiff as a board and not in the way I want you to be.
Elle Parker
#10. If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
Lemuel K. Washburn
#11. Lost is our freedom
When we submit to women so:
Why do we need 'em
When, in their best, they work our woe?
Thomas Campion
#12. Why do we need school when we have BOOKS?
Kim
#13. Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?
Karl Jakob Weber
#14. Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#15. History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'
'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.
Cinda Williams Chima
#16. So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
Abu Bakar Bashir
#17. Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God's strength and guidance along the way.
Billy Graham
#18. Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?
Maggie Stiefvater
#19. Well, then, why do we need all these books?" the boy asked.
"So that we can understand those few lines," the Englishman answered, without appearing really to believe what he had said.
Paulo Coelho
#20. why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?
Ha-Joon Chang
#21. Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
Angie Stone
#22. And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need help?
Kurt Busiek
#23. Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
Michel De Montaigne
#24. Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.
Cesar Chavez
#25. Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.
Steve Keen
#26. Why do silences mean something different when we're with different people? With you, it's never awkward, is it? It's just silence. But with other people, I feel the need to fill it with inane ramblings. What's wrong with silence?
Holly Martin
#27. Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.
Neal Shusterman
#28. The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.
Vinoba Bhave
#29. What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.
Ronnie Apteker
#30. When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord!
Gloria Furman
#31. Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#32. 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
#33. Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what ... 89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?
Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson
#34. What we do with our free time is none of your business. Now, why don't you shuffle off to Parffet. I saw him heading toward the latrines. He'll need you to wipe his ass soon. It's the one skill you're most suited for. - Ari, pg. 188.
Maria V. Snyder
#35. Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.
Joyce Meyer
#36. Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world
to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Ayn Rand
#37. If the entire system works by electric signals passing from here to there, why the hell do we also need to feel fear?
Yuval Noah Harari
#38. What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?
Ron Paul
#39. Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!
Hiromi
#40. I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.
Justin Trudeau
#41. Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?
Laura Dave
#42. Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.
K. Howard Joslin
#43. Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.
Michael Pollan
#44. The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. Why do we want and need the validation of those who celebrate our exclusion?
Carlos Wallace
#46. Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?
Ann Coulter
#47. What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?
Jon Stewart
#48. I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.
Quentin Tarantino
#49. This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. I can't do that," he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street.
"Why not?"
His face softened. "I need his money."
Spencer looked at me and I couldn't help but stare back. We were all in the same boat, prisoners to GREED.
Fisher Amelie
#51. We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
Buzz Aldrin
#52. Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
Simon Winchester
#53. With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#54. Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.
Paul Greengrass
#55. We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.
John Raese
#56. Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
Rachel Cohn
#57. To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.
Sidney Morgenbesser
#58. Rick: "...and we all need tragedy in our lives."
Marley: "Why do you think we need tragedy?"
Rick: "Because it makes us the people we are. It makes us more real. You can't experience the power of healing if you've never been broken, right?
M.K. Schiller
#59. Why do all the hot girls want the jocks and the good boys? We losers are the ones that need you.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#60. And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.
Taylor Branch
#61. Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#62. Can't it just exist without an explanation? Why do we have to assign meaning to art? Do we need to understand everything? Maybe it exists to evoke feelings and emotions
period. Not to mean something.
Matthew Quick
#63. Why do you treat us like a four-headed freak? All we need is a pound a week, Just enough for our beer and pills
Bunny Paine-Clemes
#64. 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
#65. We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.
John O'Donohue
#66. The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
Chellie Pingree
#67. Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
Susan Patron
#68. Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
Alex Gibney
#69. You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?
Andrea Leadsom
#70. Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.
Marilynne Robinson
#71. When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.
Jim Talent
#72. One of the most powerful, though difficult, lessons we all need to learn on our spiritual pilgrimage is that even when bad things happen and we do not understand why, we can trust God to be present and working on our behalf.
Henry Cloud
#73. Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.
Robyn Schneider
#74. Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
Kenneth Langone
#75. Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?
David Levithan
#76. I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
Brett Dennen
#77. Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
Dillon Burroughs
#78. Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays ... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
Ryan Giggs
#79. We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.
Bridgette Wilson
#80. We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.
John Kasich
#81. Why would men want to do without women? We adore women."
"Because they serve you," she grumbled.
"No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.
Susan Mallery
#82. Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
Alain Aspect
#83. I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world."
"Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?"
"We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.
Clyde Brion Davis
#84. As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.
Tino Sehgal
#85. Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
John Piper
#86. Ty: Were you running away?
Kit: I was going for a walk.
Ty: No, you're lying. You were running away.
Kit: Why do you care what I do?
Ty: I'm a Shadowhunter. We help people.
Kit: Now you're lying
Ty: I need you. You might be surprised to hear that.
Cassandra Clare
#87. Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.
Susan May Warren
#88. We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry Page
#89. There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
Rosa Parks
#90. Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth?"
"Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth."
"What better truth can there be than truth?
Gene Brewer
#91. Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn't need a makeover.
Matt Chandler
#92. Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.
Robert Vaughn
#93. Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?
R.A. Nelson
#94. Why do we embroider everything we say
with special emphasis
when all we really need to do
is simply say what
needs to he said?
Of course
the fact is
that there is very little that needs
to be said.
Charles Bukowski
#95. Why is it so horrible?" I ask him. "Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?"
"Power."
"Power isn't real. It's just a word
Pierce Brown
#96. Bill Thompson edited 'Whitechapel,' and his first question to me was, "Why in God's name do you want to bring down Superman?" And my answer was, and remains, by breaking down Holmes as this untouchable machine, it gives him the chance to become the hero we need him to be.
Bernard Schaffer
#97. Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.
T.D. Jakes
#98. We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,
Fred Upton
#99. The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.
John C. Maxwell
#100. Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.
Ben Greenhalgh
