Quotes with why

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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    Source: From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Howard Nemerov For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application - why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
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  • Ann Rule For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Berry Wendell For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Butler For every why he had a wherefore.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Billy Eichner For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Burt Rutan For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • James Allen For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Sophia Loren Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
    Source: Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bill Parcells God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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