Top 1200 Why Now Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.

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 is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

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

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

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

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

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

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

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

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

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

Ugh! Why can't Hell stay where it's at? Why does it always have to break loose?

I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.

This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no . . . love. A world we're trapped in until we're needed here, a world we're condemned to while everyone we might care about forgets us.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Why was I going around in rhinestones before, and am now wearing a plaid shirt and glasses? It's not a question of fashion. It's a question of time and yourself. The country changed, I grew up, life changed. It's normal.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

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.

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

I used to go on runs, it's kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it's a little bit hectic. My knees aren't that great, so recently I haven't been on the treadmill that much but that's why I like to box on a soft floor. It's good for me.

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

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

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

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Now my son Travis wants to finish all of his schooling online and be a full-time actor. I said, 'Hey, it's not all riding bicycles and egging cars and houses. Why don't you go finish the seventh grade, and we'll talk about it later.'

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

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

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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

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.

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.

One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

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

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

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

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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