Why Quotes

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.