Quotes with why

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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Asa Hutchinson But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Callie Khouri Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Antoine Fuqua Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Archibald Macleish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Robert A. Cook Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Source: Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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