Top 1200 Understanding Why Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Those that just talk are also the ones that say, 'Why don't they do this?' and 'Why don't they do that?' Well, they're they. We're all they, and we can all do a little something.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

I feel, in WWE, I always try to find my 'why' - my purpose of why I do what I do.

I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.

Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?

Why make things difficult? Why have tough times when it's not necessary?

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

Why can't you be both? Why can't I be on the basketball team but also be the student president?

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

Why? Why would you do that?” "You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.

You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.

He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet? And why to meet if not to meet in love? And why in love if not in that dear love of old?

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

That's why he's Drew Rosenhaus. He gets paid to do what he needs to do. And that's why in my eyes he's one of the best.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Liberalism, conservatism, that's irrelevant stuff to Trump. He looks at things in an entirely different way. This is a reason why we, as conservatives, have to remain vigilant as we can to the ideological component of what's going on here, because as it succeeds, we need to be able to tell people why it's working and at the same time be able to contrast and say why it didn't work when the liberals ran the show. This is an ongoing effort.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

I just wanted to be famous. That's why I did reality shows, and that's why YouTube was so perfect.