Top 100 Why There Quotes
#1. Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.
Mark Thomas
#2. There is never only one way!" Zeus bellowed. "That is why there are three Fates, not one.
Rick Riordan
#3. Any idea why there is a giant penis made out of snow in our front yard?"
Instead of an answer, I was rewarded with a face full of graham cracker cereal and milk." - from Of Cheerleaders and Gingers
K.C. Beaumont
#4. The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life ... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
Jill Paton Walsh
#5. It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
Lee Strobel
#6. To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
Judd Apatow
#7. This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur - who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving - all give us an advantage.
Yossi Vardi
#8. There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.
Brian MacLearn
#9. Everyone's relationships are very different, and very specific. I guess that's why there are people that like to watch this show [Suits]. It's not all the same.
Rick Hoffman
#10. She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.
Colson Whitehead
#11. You want to know why I am giving you a choice, Gabriel? I'll tell you why. There is a core inside of you that has never been touched, not by me, not by Michael, not by Mademoiselle Childers. I want to see what it will take to break into that core. I want to see it now.
Robin Schone
#12. There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.
Melvin Belli
#13. Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affin'd To love the Moor.
William Shakespeare
#14. I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.
Sandra Bullock
#15. With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
Rachel Johnson
#16. Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.
Naomi Novik
#17. We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.
Matt Groening
#18. Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg
#19. The only reason why there's a lot people living in contradiction; they aren't in the right time, right situation, and right place.
Innasafa
#20. Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
Martin Luther
#21. There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Vint Cerf
#22. I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
James Wolcott
#23. It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor
Neal Shusterman
#24. Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Terry Pratchett
#25. I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.
Andrea Portes
#26. As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.
Edward Witten
#27. This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.
Erin Morgenstern
#28. Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.
Joe Biden
#29. I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.
Ben Bernanke
#30. The one who was never a sinner became (through God's imputation) completely identified with sin, our sin. He was completely identified with an innumerable host of sins, took them all upon himself, closed his arms upon them in an obedient embrace, and died. That is why there is no condemnation.
Douglas Wilson
#31. That's why there's lots and lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces and not so many kinds of mustard. Not 'cause it's hard to make interesting mustard - you can make interesting mustard. But people don't because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.
Seth Godin
#32. didn't dare ask where she would stop the machine, and still less, why there. I didn't think she'd tell me anyway.
Magda Szabo
#33. Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
Liev Schreiber
#34. I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is.
Walker Evans
#35. Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
David Foster Wallace
#36. If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.
Ai Weiwei
#37. All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.
Jack McDevitt
#38. Every team member is equally important, that is why there should not be any favoritism.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.
Rory Kinnear
#40. Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better - it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?
Jerry Spinelli
#42. Why there is word for "End"???, which mean why there is "End",...!?
(So far it doesn't exist!?)
Deyth Banger
#43. I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking
#44. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.
Thomas Pynchon
#45. Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'
Shonda Rhimes
#46. Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.
Andy Samberg
#47. Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's hands. That's why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour.
Dada Bhagwan
#48. That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.
Tim DeChristopher
#49. If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?
Srinivas Shenoy
#50. Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
Aidan Quinn
#51. Hippocrates wrote: Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.
Carl Sagan
#52. The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.
Basilea Schlink
#53. Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.
Frederick Lenz
#54. There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John Banville
#56. But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Lewis Carroll
#57. We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the carg0.
Alexandre Dumas
#58. Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
Joan Jett
#59. They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to."
"Are you sure?"
"She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
Joe Abercrombie
#60. Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.
Kate Clinton
#61. It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me.
Robert Bloch
#62. I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.
Lemmy Kilmister
#63. The small lives of women don't make for good stories. That's why there were no girls in the stories Myrddin told, unless they were there as a prize for the hero to win at the end of his adventures.
Philip Reeve
#64. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote
#65. Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical - yes, or more obsequious! - than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch
Sinclair Lewis
#66. She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?
Tatiana De Rosnay
#67. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.
Jay Crownover
#68. It seemed self-evident that hands were the essence of humanity. That was why there were palm readers; palm readers said the lines on a person's palms allowed them to determine an individual's personality. Hands were mirror that reflected the person's past and future.
Otsuichi
#69. Meaning is also a colour and that's why there are many colours in the black and white photos!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
Daniel Handler
#71. No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
Derek Parfit
#72. Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts that he was never quite able to resist.
Frederick Buechner
#73. Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are,
George R R Martin
#74. You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.
Hank Green
#75. For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
Zhuangzi
#77. Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
George Iles
#78. Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.
Donna Lynn Hope
#80. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.
Benjamin Disraeli
#81. The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
Napoleon Hill
#82. If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#83. People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm" therefore Africans have no concept of saying something and having it mean a playfully snide version of the opposite.
Will Bowen
#84. I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'
Michael Greger
#85. A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
Rafael Sabatini
#86. [Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#87. A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why ... There must be more
Andrew Peterson
#88. I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
Chad Harbach
#89. Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.
Toba Beta
#90. Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#91. Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
Victor Borge
#92. Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
Jason Alexander
#94. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe
#95. This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
Brent Weeks
#96. From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
Fabiola Gianotti
#97. You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
Russell Chatham
#98. No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
Marcel Marceau
#99. I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
Gene Simmons
#100. There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.
Jonathan Coulton
