Why Quotes

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.