Top 100 Why Is It Quotes
#1. All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. Why is it I only get to see you with your shirt off when you're hurt?
Kady Cross
#3. This is good."
"Why is it good?" I asked.
He pulled out a stethoscope. "It's a good indication that the mutation is on a perfect, cellular level."
"Or an indication that I'm pretty damn awesome," Daemon suggested coolly.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#4. Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
Ron Paul
#5. Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules ... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
Brent Weeks
#7. Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?
Norton Juster
#8. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#9. Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.
Ellen DeGeneres
#10. Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.
Jonathan Gash
#11. How predictable," Grimalkin sighed, appearing in the doorway. We gaped at
him, and he regarded us with amusement. "I thought you might need a second way out. Why is it always up to me to think of these things?
Julie Kagawa
#12. Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When
Rene Girard
#13. We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Edward Young
#14. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.
Ellen Wittlinger
#15. Why is it that the unwanted things come up of their own but the things of substance, of use, and of value need efforts to make them prosper?
Girdhar Joshi
#16. Ladies first."
"Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?
Kami Garcia
#17. My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? '
'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?'
- Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
#18. Why is it so hard for women to find men who are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? A: Because those men already have boyfriends.
Anonymous
#19. Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
Wallace Shawn
#20. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#21. Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
Jesse Schell
#22. Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
B.R. Ambedkar
#23. Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
Eminem
#24. Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.
Ray Bradbury
#25. Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
Jennifer Donnelly
#27. You see, my friends ... you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?
Nora Roberts
#29. Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?
Gloria Allred
#30. Why is it alright to be going around, going mental with a gun, shooting all the monkeys and killing them? Because one day we're going to run out.
Karl Pilkington
#31. Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
Alan Bennett
#32. I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].
Christopher Bollen
#33. Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Aristotle.
#34. Why is it?.. I'm so sad and so lonely. But the tears just won't come.
Hiro Mashima
#35. Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
Richard Trumka
#36. Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
Diana Butler Bass
#37. Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?
Talal Asad
#38. Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
Edward Abbey
#39. Why is it, when I have nothing to do, I drink more coffee? It's as if I'm in a big hurry to get nothing done.
Dana Gould
#40. Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?
George Carlin
#41. Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?
Libba Bray
#42. Why is it so impossible to believe: that we are as many headed as monsters, as many armed as gods, as many hearted as angels?
Andrew Sean Greer
#44. I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
Alice Englert
#45. Why is it" - she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower - "that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?"
A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. "Because I'm a smart man.
Nalini Singh
#46. Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God?
Dallas Willard
#47. Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
Dennis Cooper
#48. Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?
Sukant Ratnakar
#49. Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#50. Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Saint Augustine
#51. Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. Why is it that if a lord or a king sends you to kill a man, it's somehow noble? But if you do this for yourself, it's murder?
Jon Sprunk
#54. Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn't you subsist only two-sided?
Pawan Mishra
#55. Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away,
Evan Currie
#56. Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#57. Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
Fulton J. Sheen
#58. Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?
Nick Bantock
#59. Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?
Richard Bach
#60. Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
Neal A. Maxwell
#61. Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called sheep? It should be shoop and sheep. Like, 'Oh, look, there goes a shoop,' and 'Wow, there goes a lot of sheep'."
The Fire Stone
Riley Carney
#62. Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
John Clayton
#63. If human beings are the most intelligent creatures on earth, why is it that the other less intelligent creatures realise themselves in their group of spieces that they are the same despite the difference in colour or condition, while humam beings don't
Nathanael Kanyinga
#64. Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#65. The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
Eben Moglen
#66. Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.
Bernie Sanders
#67. Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
John R.W. Stott
#68. And why is it that time speeds and slows depending on your attendance? I'd like a steady clock, a reliable clock, isolated from the progressive beating of my heart.
Coco J. Ginger
#69. The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
Confucius
#70. Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?
Margaret Atwood
#71. Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.
Monica Cruz
#72. Why is it you get more tired from sitting and doing nothing than from running around doing too much?
Anita Diamant
#73. Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?
Chuck Palahniuk
#74. Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"
"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.
Ilona Andrews
#75. Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Thomas Hardy
#76. Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna.
"Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?
George S. Patton
#78. Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
Emile Zola
#79. Explain somethin' to me, babe, why is it you always wanna stop talking when I'm winnin' the fuckin' argument?
Kristen Ashley
#80. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.
Anthony Ryan
#81. Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
Charles Bukowski
#82. Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?
Kelly Nelson
#83. Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#84. Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle.
#85. Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
Sinclair Lewis
#86. Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
George R R Martin
#87. Mother," Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
"you know I love you dearly - "
"Why is it," Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?
Julia Quinn
#88. Why is it we always have the best one-liners for times when they are not needed, but never for when they are?
Marie F. Crow
#89. Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
#90. Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?
Alan LeMay
#91. I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.
Sara Douglass
#92. A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
Richard G. Scott
#93. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon ...
Margaret Atwood
#94. What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good?
Yahya Madra
#95. Why is it when I'm the one shot, I'm a baby, but when it's you, it's a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe)
Because I'm cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?
Patricia Briggs
#98. Why is it so hard, the sweetness of the heart of the cherry?
Is it because it must die or because it must carry on?
Pablo Neruda
#99. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
Richard Llewellyn
#100. Why is it men think you have to accept an apology, just because one is offered?
D.D. Barant
