Why Quotes

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

What would you say? And why are you waiting?

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?

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.