Why Quotes

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.