Why The Quotes

#1. Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.

Dave Attell

#2. Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#3. A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Mark Richard

#4. If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

Clayton Christensen

#5. It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

Stephen Ambrose

#6. And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Terry Goodkind

#7. I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.

Zach Braff

#8. I'm very pleased. Very, very pleased. But I really must ask - why the hell have men and women been throwing money in my kettle for the past half hour, telling me they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza?" "It's because they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza," said Galdo.

Scott Lynch

#9. This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.

Emmanuel Petit

#10. Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Malcolm De Chazal

#11. 'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how we've done with Green Lantern. It's important that the Flash can hold his own.

Geoff Johns

#12. I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

Patti Smith

#13. He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#14. I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.

Andrew Aydin

#15. You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

Lloyd A. Green

#16. If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

Mads Mikkelsen

#17. We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

David Blunkett

#18. They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
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And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
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Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin

Bradley Trevor Greive

#19. Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

John Corey Whaley

#20. I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.

Scott Oden

#21. One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#22. I was starting to understand why the blood of a thousand virgins had been sacrificed at his altar of sexual prowess.

Penny Reid

#23. I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

Lorenz Hart

#24. You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus.
"Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?"
Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.

Suzanne Collins

#25. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Jesse Ventura

#26. Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

B.F. Skinner

#27. Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Sara Sheridan

#28. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

Wendy J. Dunn

#29. 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

#30. As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I'd huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.

Miranda Kenneally

#31. When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.

Bill Maher

#32. Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Francis Bacon

#33. Fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn't happen to people who didn't exist. Why? The only answer can be that humans deeply, deeply desired it.

Lee Child

#34. Better the devil you know.
I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.

Patrick Ness

#35. This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, 'If you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him'.

Dada Bhagwan

#36. You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.

Lemony Snicket

#37. This would be so goddamn much easier if I weren't human," she said. "Think about it. If I weren't human, why the hell would I care whether you got raped?

Octavia E. Butler

#38. After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

Wil Wheaton

#39. I don't know why the suggestion sounds more appealing coming out of his mouth than Karen's, but I nod.

Colleen Hoover

#40. There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.

Gregory Berns

#41. With every other girl vying for his attention, why the heck would he notice a bookworm like me?" And

Cookie O'Gorman

#42. I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.

Joe Biden

#43. Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

Michael Donaghy

#44. I believe that it is important for us to understand the reason why the enemy attacks the womb because it is then that we will have a more accurate way to pray against it and overcome it.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#45. He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

Agatha Christie

#46. My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

Imelda Marcos

#47. That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now ...

Tim Ferriss

#48. I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There's a reason to action in my films.

Sunny Deol

#49. The thing I don't get about paedophilia ... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

Frankie Boyle

#50. Why the hell was the nun dancing onstage?"

R.S. Grey

#51. I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

Chris Cleave

#52. On Accidentally Eating Dog Treats
Snausages? I've been eating dog treats? Why the fuck would you put them on the counter where the rest of the food is? Fuck it, they're delicious. I will not be shamed by this.

Justin Halpern

#53. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

#54. , But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said.
"That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life.

R.A. Salvatore

#55. Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

Richard Rohr

#56. Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'

Conan O'Brien

#57. I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

Donald Miller

#58. Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.

Karin Slaughter

#59. The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed
socialism doesn't work,

Rand Paul

#60. Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.

Judith Lewis Herman

#61. Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

Edward Abbey

#62. That's the one for my tombstone ... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

David Byrne

#63. Sunny could think of lots of reasons about why the angel was crying, but the one that felt the best to her was that the angel wept so Sunny didn't have to.

Megan Hart

#64. Can I just say that I don't care if two planes or trains or whatever take off from different locations at different times and travel at different speeds. I am not traffic control, so why the hell would I care what time they'd pass each other?

Devon Ashley

#65. If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Marianne Moore

#66. Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

Denis Kearney

#67. People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Richard Rohr

#68. Why the mad hair, girl?"
"Because damn you," growled Thorn, "that's why.

Joe Abercrombie

#69. When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#70. Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#71. But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#72. 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

Bertrand Russell

#73. Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#74. People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Henry Ford

#75. I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

Corey Hart

#76. There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

Charlie LeDuff

#77. Reacher said nothing. We can't fight thirty people. To which Reacher's natural response was: Why the hell not?

Lee Child

#78. I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

John Niven

#79. Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#80. In the film industry, especially in the TV branch, there is a widespread contempt for the viewing public, which explains why the great majority of films are boring and stupid.

Dean Koontz

#81. I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

Thierry Henry

#82. Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them

Kofi Annan

#83. I guess high school really is ancient history, she concludes.
Ancient history? Have you really relegated us to the trash heap of the Dumb High-School Romance? And if that's the case, why the hell can't I do the same?

Gayle Forman

#84. When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.

Umberto Eco

#85. One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.

Ada Lovelace

#86. I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is supposed to act like the world, and God tells us that every generation gets more wicked, so why the surprise? Maybe we have some word to swallow ourselves.

Monica Johnson

#87. I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

Michael Jackson

#88. When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#89. The baby turtles are turning away from the ocean. It's easy to see why. The black waves lap up the moonbeams, and the starlight on the inky surface of the water gives off such a pale glow when you compare it to the megawatt flashlights that Raffy is swirling in hypnotic circles.

Karen Russell

#90. Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

Jim Highsmith

#91. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.

John Green

#92. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#93. The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Al McGuire

#94. The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

Ismail Haniyeh

#95. I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#96. We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare's head."
They looked at me.
"Why the head?" Doolittle asked.
"Because it's easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time." And I didn't just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.

Ilona Andrews

#97. Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Tim Pawlenty

#98. I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

Harold Prince

#99. The goal then is to understand why people did not or could not act differently. People acted the way they did for very good reasons; we need to understand why the behavior of the people involved made sense to them at the time

Nancy G. Leveson

#100. The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be; ... In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

H.E. Bates