Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes I think, ‘I need to get married soon.’ Other days I think, ‘Why get married?’ – Song Hye-kyo
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima. – Werner Heisenberg
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless – why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? – Upamanyu Chatterjee
Here’s my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it’s got all those A’s lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for ‘If the United States fights somebody, we’re going to be huge. They’re going to be small.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett
I’m not one of those people who hates Amazon because they’re big. Why pay a third more for the same thing? – Susan Hill
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. – Sheldon Adelson
Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? – Tony Judt
What I’m seeing is a generation that says consistently, ‘I would rather text than make a telephone call.’ Why? It’s less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don’t have to get all involved; it’s more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face. – Sherry Turkle
I don’t like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I’m truly scared and upset. – Shawnee Smith
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. – Wendell Pierce
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? – Tom Hayden
Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‘Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.’ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business. – Steve Jobs
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? – Tim Pawlenty
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor. – Tony Campolo
I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That’s why I turned out the way I am. – Simon Cowell
Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. – Susan Estrich
Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. – Trent Reznor
Why do we even use hashtags? It’s just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody. – Tori Kelly
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do. – Sandra Lee
Why hire these geniuses if they’re forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators. – Shawn Levy
