Quotes with why

Quotes 721 till 736 of 736.

  • Bruce Lipton Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin [Soldier speaking to another soldier:] Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?
    Source: LIFE Magazine, 16 July 1945, Cartoon Caption
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Barton [The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Elias Canetti Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • William Shakespeare Every why has a wherefore.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Pablo Picasso Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • William Shakespeare Why should honor outlive honestly?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Donald Trump You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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