Top 100 Why It Quotes
#1. Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
Vicente Fox
#2. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
Vicente Fox
#3. A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.
Dwight L. Moody
#5. I think I know now why it is called the Kangaroo Suite. It's because even when you no longer have a child, you carry him forever. It
Jodi Picoult
#6. Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King
#8. Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
Chris Martin
#9. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.
Jeffrey Lurie
#10. I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
Liz Phair
#11. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.
Zak Ebrahim
#12. I see you in every flower in the park, every color in a rainbow and in every scent that reminds me of the things I love. Without knowing how, or even why it happened, I can't imagine a world where you don't exist.
Denise Mathew
#13. Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.
Thomas Metzinger
#14. Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.
And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
Seth Godin
#15. You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
Henry Rollins
#16. A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
Montserrat Caballe
#17. You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.
Zoe Marriott
#18. I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.
Rebecca West
#19. Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.
David Ortiz
#20. That is why it's so fun to make movies ... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
Meg Tilly
#21. Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
Adrienne Bailon
#22. I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.
Ricky Schroder
#23. Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
Helen Keller
#24. Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
Zach Woods
#25. We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease..
Eckhart Tolle
#26. I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments ...
James Elkins
#27. The cock does not just crow! It crows for a reason. Do not just concentrate on the cock crowing and mind the reason why it crows; the time !
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
Steven Brust
#29. Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.
Isabel Allende
#30. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss
Harper Lee
#31. In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
Isabel Allende
#32. We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
George R R Martin
#33. Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.
Jack Black
#34. Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.
Donna McKechnie
#35. Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it.
Terry Pratchett
#36. Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.
Seth Godin
#37. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.
Daniel H. Pink
#38. And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
Benazir Bhutto
#39. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#40. Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#41. Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If
Brene Brown
#42. I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.
Daniel Handler
#43. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?
Carson McCullers
#44. I ignore Jaco Coote when I see him. I'm not sure why. It's not as if I dislike him or anything. I think I ignore him because if I look at him I might find that he's looking at me, and I'm not sure where that would lead us.
Melina Marchetta
#45. Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
Shauna Niequist
#46. I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
Steve Wozniak
#47. There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.
Zacky Vengeance
#48. I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.
Michael Richards
#49. The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.
Virginia Woolf
#50. And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.
Joanne Harris
#51. Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it's easy to preach. I guess that's why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up's and down's and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.
Gudjon Bergmann
#52. Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mustn't be a personal, freely chosen ideal, but one held in common and taken over from other people.
Hermann Hesse
#53. Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
Joseph Campbell
#54. I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.
Christian Boltanski
#55. I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.
Kinky Friedman
#56. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.
Dan Pearce
#57. There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
Salman Rushdie
#58. Here's all you need to know about crazy: Crazy's favorite shape is a circle. Broken records, crazy urges on a loop. Any of this ring a bell? That's how crazy works, and why it keeps repeating itself.
R.K. Lilley
#59. You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Ellen DeGeneres
#60. The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
#61. But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.
Thomas Hardy
#62. People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Elon Musk
#63. The locker rooms were clean when we departed because I asked the players to pick up after themselves. I believe this is just common courtesy. Somebody's going to have to clean it up, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be the person who messed it up.
John Wooden
#64. Bear. It's always been you. It will always be you. I love you, and that's why it will always be enough.
T.J. Klune
#65. It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
Lemony Snicket
#66. Some starve themselves of what's essential to the soul and later question why it feels like they're dying.
Erica Alex
#67. The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
Chuck Close
#68. Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
Craig Venter
#69. I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.
Lindsay Pearce
#70. Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.
Reba McEntire
#71. Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Kary Mullis
#72. So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
Anthony LaPaglia
#73. When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.
Matt Taibbi
#74. I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.
Joshua Foer
#75. I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
Jodi Picoult
#76. If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.
Frederick Lenz
#77. It fits," said Tolly Mune. "Sometimes I feel this ship is haunted." "This suggests why it is wiser to rely upon intellect rather than feelings, Portmaster.
George R R Martin
#78. These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Michael Bloomberg
#79. Now I wonder, is love not a feeling but a place between two present people? A sacred place created when two people decide it's safe enough to let their real selves surface and touch each other? Is that why it's called in love? Because you have to visit there?
Glennon Doyle Melton
#80. It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.
Bob Colacello
#81. My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.
Niki Taylor
#82. Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#83. When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.
Joyce Meyer
#84. By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
Michael Ian Black
#85. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.
Eric Ludy
#86. Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.
Tove Jansson
#87. Why, it almost makes one forgive the rain, does it not - when the sun comes out like this, at the end of it all.
Eleanor Catton
#88. There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.
Michael Carbonaro
#89. Why, it proves that you believe with your generation. Your saints lived in an age of faith, when it was practically impossible to disbelieve what to us is positively incredible." "Then how d'you know that we have the truth now?" "I don't.
William Somerset Maugham
#90. Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.
Dacia Maraini
#91. Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#92. You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
Clive Barker
#93. Yet science articles, like Denise Grady's piece about the cough, made the Most E-Mailed list more than politics, fashion, or business news. Why? It turns out that science articles frequently chronicle innovations and discoveries that evoke a particular emotion in readers. That emotion? Awe.
Jonah Berger
#94. I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
W. Somerset Maugham
#95. The bird flying free has no interest in the truth, searching, or looking for a deeper meaning. The bird flying free just "is" and that is why it is free.
Princess Mazzaloulou
#96. I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.
Terry Pratchett
#97. Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
Bill Evans
#98. Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#99. Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.
Anne Ursu
#100. Love is magic. And you, my dear, are so in love; why, it shows in your every action, in your every breath.
Rachel Van Dyken
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