Quotes of: Why-not Keyword

Results are their own propaganda. The vast majority of the people are free, prosperous, and safe under the Phoenix Society's rule. They are happy. Why should they care if the likes of you are denied due process?" --Imaginos

Without Bloodshed

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."

The Water Babies

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

Warm Bodies

CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

Why Kings Confess

The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

Why Time Begins on Opening Day

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.

Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky! Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!

Whimsy Girl

It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

Wicked Game

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

When You Were Here

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Where the Heart Is

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

When Did You See Her Last?

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Kat moaned that I'd plowed my way in here, why couldn't I plow us back out. I made a sick joke about the only kind of plowing I wanted to do was into her.

Wild

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.

Why Did I Marry You Anyway?: Overcoming the Myths That Hinder a Happy Marriage

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?