Quotes with why

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  • Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • William Shakespeare Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Knight Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
    And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
    Bathing in the River.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carl Safina Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
    (2010)
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ben Folds Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bart Stupak Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Bill Parcells Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Boo Weekley Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Ben Folds Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know?
    It's okay if you don't know everything.
    Lyrics Bastard, Songs for Silverman (2005)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Samuel Johnson Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Camus Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Evans Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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