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You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong? Jodi Picoult
You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck.. Lou Reed
This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it. Paulo Coelho
Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck Jodi Picoult
She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids. Anne Lamott
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. Victor Hugo
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. H. G. Wells
If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. Christopher Hitchens
J. K. Rowling quote: "I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an..."
I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat. J. K. Rowling
You want to do it?"I might. If you offer me enough."Howard--anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul..."That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul--would you understand why that's much harder? Ayn Rand
Orson Scott Card quote: "All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything..."
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life? Orson Scott Card
W. H. Auden quote: "Like love we don't know where or why. Like love we cant compel..."
Like love we don't know where or why. Like love we cant compel or fly. Like Love we often weep. Like Love we seldom keep W. H. Auden
There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do it, Sarah Jaxheimer? Why is your hair always so shiny?! Taylor Swift
Haruki Murakami quote: "I don’t know why I’m so crazy about cats. I like how they are..."
I don’t know why I’m so crazy about cats. I like how they are soft and warm, and individualistic, kind of like me. Haruki Murakami
Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.(...)I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked. Julie Delpy

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