Quotes About Why

Why must beliefs always seek to invade their victims, to fill them with fever, and then to infect yet others like a plague? Why

I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

always so firmly supposed she did; and it was why

I don't know why it was a tragedy, the world.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

It's very human to want to make an impact, to contribute to the world. But it's hard to know the how and why. Like, 'Will my small thing make a difference?'

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.

I found, when I was working in restaurants, that I did have this sort of natural curiosity about why things work.

I don't talk to nobody. You know why? 'Cause if you ain't talkin' money, what the hell you talkin' bout?

In trying to think through what is happening and why and in trying to understand thereby what ought to be done, the nation's social scientists and journalists and politicians seek explanations.

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.

If Earth was such unworthy soil for God's best specimens, why did he perversely plant them there?

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the 'why' are usually astute, high-performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most.

In a political democracy, every soldier's death is a public event. Every soldier's death ought to provoke the hard question: Why did he die?

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

The emphasis on final causality, the answer to the ultimate Why, was abandoned in favor of the descriptive how — how it operates, not why it is there in the first place.

When I say we should never ask why, I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous cry of anguish when calamity first befalls us or one we love. Rather, I am speaking of the persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone toward God in it.

Asking why isn't about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul's craving for meaning.

It's our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks.

It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying what it says. The question of why is most often the context for the transition into homiletical form.