Quotes of: Why-bother Keyword

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.

On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Before when we were talking, were you asking why her?" The aurora above us reflected on his face, and his dark eyes were filled with heat. "Or were you asking why not you?

FrostFire

His steps slowed to a stop. “Why?” His voice was a ghost in the quiet. “Why give me your trust when you know it is such an easy thing to break?” “Perhaps the easy giving of it will make it harder to break

Firelight

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

Good Ground

Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.

Gnome from Nome

A leadership disposition guides you to take the path of most resistance and turn it into the path of least resistance.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - Cat

Halfway to the Grave

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm." "You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?

The Bone Clocks

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

They used to tell me if you’re depressed anyway, why not be depressed and take a walk instead of being depressed and staying in bed? If it makes no difference, why not get up and go out?

The Bridge

Sex that's planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me..... Listen to yourself. Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice?" (Eva to Gideon)

Bared to You

The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: ...

Trey Songz