Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, ‘Why me?’, then a voice answers ‘Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.’ – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Charlie Brown.
I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 7. Winston writing his diary after thinking about the Party and its control of the people. He only learns the WHY when he is later being tortured and interrogated in the Ministry of Love.
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations. – Hjalmar Branting
Vampires aren’t made – they’re just born that way, and no one knows why. They’re sort of a race unto themselves. – Holly Black
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park? – Hendrik Poinar
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? – Horace
Intel continues… to abuse their monopoly, and that’s why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them. – Hector Ruiz
There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don’t we try drinking rats’ milk and dogs’ milk? – Heather Mills
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. – Henry Rollins
I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants… The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why. – Helen Thomas
You see things; and you say, ‘Why’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’. – George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1 .
That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. – Hassan Nasrallah
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. – Horace Mann
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. – Georges Cuvier
George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. – Hillary Clinton
Everybody believes they can win now. That’s why there are so many upsets in the Grand Slams. – Heather Watson
I don’t watch the beginnings of many series; I don’t know why – maybe because I’m normally working. – Grant Bowler
I have a horrible sweet tooth. It’s gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I take it out and eat it? – Hoda Kotb
I don’t really understand why everybody doesn’t want to direct. It’s an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. – Hugh Laurie
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive. – Gwyneth Paltrow
Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat? – Ian Lustick
