Quotes of: Why-not Keyword

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

William Temple

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

Vanessa Hudgens

If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?

Etienne Vermeersch

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Francis Spufford

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Christopher Hitchens

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

J. M. Coetzee

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

Charles L. Allen

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Gayle King

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

Dennis Miller

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Jean Genet

John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.

The Man from Earth

Bud Fox: Why do you have to wreck this company... Gordon Gekko: Because it's WRECKABLE, that's why!

Wall Street

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jesse Helms

Tom: What happened? Why - why didn't they work out? Summer: What always happens. Life.

(500) Days of Summer

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

Anne Rice

Practice makes perfect, But nothings perfect so why bother practicing?

Life

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Wayne Rooney

We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not trust the truth because it is free. Perhaps because many are idealists and publishing is so frustrating, writers are particularly vulnerable to ...

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a...

Jacob's Room