Quotes of: Why-bother Keyword

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Bellwether

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Bark: Stories

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

Kim Cattrall

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Almost No Memory

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

The History Man

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again?

Roar and Liv

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

Rapture Fever: Why Dispensationalism Is Paralyzed

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?" "Power." "Power isn't real. It's just a word.

Red Rising

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Why is it so sexy when hot guys stare each other down like that? Why do I feel like licking the air? Am I ovulating?

Slow Burn

The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect