Why Quotes

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.