Why Quotes (page 13)

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• good
• grandmother
• answer

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done. Tove Jansson

• end
• you me
• ending

Why don’t you lift the end?” said Alf. “It’s me back, Alf,” complained Mack. “You know how it troubles me.” “No more than mine troubles me,” said Alf. “But I said it first,” said Mack. Dave Barry

• fighting
• heart
• manly

Why, pray, must the Argives needs fight the Trojans? What made the son of Atreus gather the host and bring them? Was it not for the sake of Helen? Are the sons of Atreus the only men in the world who love their wives? Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart Homer

• love
• saying
• say

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say. Robert Fulghum

• new
• new start
• world

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world? John Adams

• fire
• wishes
• memorial

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. Margaret Atwood

• beautiful love
• beautiful
• manly

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? Walker Percy

• creator
• caring
• sites

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution? Richard Dawkins

• heart
• boys
• ask

Why do we have to listen to our hearts? the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. Paulo Coelho

• kindness
• courage
• discipline

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. Ayn Rand

• words
• word
• five

Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”? Steven Wright

• manly
• manned
• who

Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. Charles Dickens

• time
• men
• engagement

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Erik Larson

• women
• love
• men

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over. Dylan Thomas

• past
• presents
• remembered

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present? Soren Kierkegaard