Top 100 Why Have Quotes
#1. But why have you dear English Jew whose forefathers fought to enter the country of Johnny Mill, the Stuart with a little heart, saunter in Haridwar, no pubs or fish and chips' counters here, only Ganga-Jal, -the holy ale- Quaff it for the spirit and carry it to the banks of Thames in a holy grail.
Aporva Kala
#2. Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
Milla Jovovich
#3. I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?
Cassandra Clare
#4. Then why have you been talking about her for the past half hour straight?" His friend glanced over at him, a cheeky grin on his face, and the rockstar glared exaggeratedly.
"I have not."
"You definitely have. I missed an entire episode of Cupcake Wars because you've got a crush.
Andrea D. Smith
#5. Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.
Klaus Kinski
#6. Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?
Ichtys
#8. Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?
John Adams
#10. Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
Charles Dickens
#11. If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?
Robert W. Funk
#12. I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
Indira Varma
#13. Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?
Anton Chekhov
#14. Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#15. Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
Homer
#16. Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
Candice Olson
#17. Hear these words, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" and know that the Son of God has taken our place, become for us the abandonment our sin produces, so that we may live confident that the world has been redeemed by this cross. So
Stanley Hauerwas
#18. And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?
Bartolome De Las Casas
#19. Why, oh why have I fallen for someone who is plain crazy - beautiful, sexy as fuck, richer than Croesus, and crazy with a capital K?
E.L. James
#20. I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
Sarah Ferguson
#21. I ordered a hot chocolate and Chandler got a black coffee. He smiled over at me. "Still no love for coffee?"
I shook my head. "Nah, why have bitter and gross when I can have sweet and delicious?
Lisa Kessler
#22. Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.
Richard Ayoade
#23. Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?
Roseanne Barr
#24. Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#25. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
Nicky Wire
#26. Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.
Thorton Wilder
#27. Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.
Douglas Rushkoff
#28. Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Julio Cortazar
#29. Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
Rainbow Rowell
#30. Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#31. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on.
Yann Martel
#32. ... because what I want you to tell me, Mother Roberts - and I mean this very seriously - is why have I been in Houston for eight days without anybody offering me some cocaine?
Hunter S. Thompson
#33. Why Have One Heart-Stopping Alpha Billionaire When You Can Have 2?
Scarlett Avery
#34. God,' he said, 'why have you chastised me with such a terrible deformity as thinking? Why have you taught me to think, instead of teaching me the humility of cattle!
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#35. I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.
Ishmael Beah
#36. The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?
Henry David Thoreau
#37. Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.
Andre Brie
#38. Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you ...
Alison Croggon
#39. We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.
Beth Moore
#40. Why have you chosen to spare me?"
"I want us to be ... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered."
"Ha." I'd set myself up for that one.
Karen Marie Moning
#41. You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
Jason Robert Brown
#42. Everyone complains about their children. I wonder, and not just to be argumentative: if children are such a pain in the ass, why have them?
Amara Lakhous
#43. Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?
Rio Ferdinand
#44. Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?
Ward Cunningham
#45. If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?
Raffi
#46. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#47. There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation
purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
Djuna Barnes
#48. God, why have you done this to me? My little prayer goes unanswered.
Katherine Owen
#49. Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
Virginia Woolf
#50. If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?
David Wong
#51. Why, god, why? Why have you deserted me in my moment of need? I'm going to die. I'm going to internally combust never knowing what if feels like to be inside of my girlfriend.
Life is so unfair.
Cheryl McIntyre
#52. Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Lee Trevino
#54. It's not "Why have hamburger when you can have steak?" It's "I'll have the filet mignon, rib eye, t-bone, and fuck it, throw a couple of burgers in there too, I guess." Alphas need variety.
A.D. Aliwat
#55. Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
Hilda Doolittle
#57. Why have you always cared so much about these tiny worlds?" "Why have you never?" He had once. When she'd cared about him. He'd made himself small for her and walked in her manner, tending small things. But being small was so much more complicated than being God.
Karen Marie Moning
#58. Why have one alpha billionaire when you can have two?
Scarlett Avery
#59. My trepidation was growing more terrible by the minute. "Why did you do this? Why have you brought me here?"
"Why?" He repeated with a slow and heated appraisal that made me acutely, almost painfully, conscious of my sex. "Bon Dieu! Are you not woman enough to know?
Victoria Vane
#60. I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do."
"Uh ... and that is?" Annabeth ventured.
"Why, have tea and chat, obviously
Rick Riordan
#61. Why have we books in heaven?"
"Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...
Rebecca Ruter Springer
#62. You're in love with me? Why have you never said anything?" He demanded.
"No one wants to tell someone she loves him, and have him not say it back," her eyes dropped and she said it so softly he had to strain to hear it.
Laura Hunsaker
#63. Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
Elizabeth Berg
#64. So much the better - so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?
James Fenimore Cooper
#65. Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
Julian Barnes
#66. I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but ... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.
Brian Lamb
#68. Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor
when we are always laughing? ... and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.
Naomi Weisstein
#69. Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?
Stephanie Mills
#70. But other beings shouldn't be forgotten. You knew that when you were a student, felt that need from those no one else wanted to think about. Even demons need a home. Even a dark landscape should feel the warmth of the Light. Why have you forgotten that?
Anne Bishop
#71. If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?
Don Young
#72. Thrash her, thrash her! Why have you stopped? shouted voices in the crowd.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#73. Why have we swallowed the lie that we can only help if we're perfect? The cosmic truth sealed in the wounds of the broken God is that the greatest brokers of abundance know an unspoken broken. Wrapping
Ann Voskamp
#74. Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth?
Adelaide Crapsey
#75. Why did I never do that before? If I'm free, if I can think whatever I choose to think, why have I always avoided imagining forbidden situations?
Paulo Coelho
#76. A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?
Robert Greene
#77. Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Florence Nightingale
#78. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?
Zach Braff
#79. Lost race?" The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. "Why have I never heard of these 'Rathiuel'?"
"Because," Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince's skull, "you do not care to read.
Leonard Mokos
#80. I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
Jenny McCarthy
#81. I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?
Joe Arpaio
#82. No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back.
Valerie Ormond
#83. If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
Isaac Slade
#84. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.
Groucho Marx
#85. 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
#86. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres
#87. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer
#88. Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?
Sanami Matoh
#89. More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
#90. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."
Hillary Clinton
#91. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.
Liz Phair
#92. Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'
'Because usually I have.' And the way he raised his eye-brow at me made me blush.
'Classy,' I said.
Michelle Hodkin
#93. When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
Ian McEwan
#94. I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry?
Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that?
So many daughters have come home wet lately.
Jeanne Birdsall
#95. I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.
Jack Kerouac
#96. Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?
Sean Hannity
#97. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#98. The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
Paulo Coelho
#99. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.
Claire Fuller
#100. We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara
Masashi Kishimoto
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