Why Quotes (page 63)

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• adventure
• achievement
• trip

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. Aristophanes

• movie
• bored
• play

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. Asia Argento

• kids
• people
• bad

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there. John Aniston

• respect
• respected
• respectively

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar? Joaquin Andujar

• kindness
• images
• reality

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. Laurie Anderson

• saying
• numbers
• our

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? Woody Allen

• food
• manly
• foods

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. Woody Allen

• success
• retirement
• planning

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. Sheldon Adelson

• team
• winning
• look

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. Frank Abagnale

• sky
• men
• manly

But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and swirling through things, men living, doing good and evil, the sea rolling its waves and the sky with its expanse of lights, and who asks himself why these leaves are there, why the water flows, why life itself is such a terrible torrent plunging towards the boundless ocean of death in which it will lose itself, why men walk about, labor like ants, why... Gustave Flaubert

• goals
• fitness
• manly

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I... Ayn Rand

• time
• uncle
• god

You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’s why you can heal a blind man as Joseph saw you do, that’s why you can pray for snow and there will be snow, that’s why you can dispute with your uncle Cleopas when he forgets you’re a boy, that’s why you make sparrows from clay and bring them to life. Keep your power inside you. Guard it until your Father in Heaven shows you the time to use it. If he’s made you a child, then he’s made you a child... Anne Rice

• mood
• mistake
• lesson

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such... Anne Lamott

• kiss
• little
• bird

I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving; Sweet little red feet! why should you die - Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why? You liv'd alone in the forest-tree, Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me? I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas; Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? John Keats

• work
• great
• greatness

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know. Mike Singletary