Quotes About Why

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

The thing about games is that you don't want to look too closely at why you're playing them. A great yawning emptiness underlies them, a close relative of the nothingness that lies beneath the surface of our busy lives.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

This Why–What If–How progression—which can be identified in many stories of innovative breakthroughs—is

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

I wonder why things have to change

Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now—not that we know too much of the why.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

It said: "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival,Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. "For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little 'why'.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.

Your purpose is your why.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'

From these early attempts to explain things slowly came philosophy as well as our present science. Not that science explains "why" things are as they are - gravitation does not explain why things fall - but science gives so many details of "how" that we have the feeling we understand "why." Let us be clear about this point; it is by the sea of interrelated details that science seems to say "why" the universe is as it is.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.