W Quotes
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“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Why do they collect garbarge at 5am? Why? It's garbage. It's not going to go bad again.”
“Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?”
“Why do they do what they do with such regularity, such mindfulness, such devotion? They do it because it is their sacred work. They do it because not to do it would be to deny what they know is theirs to manage and care about. The right action does not depend upon having a right outcome. It depends on taking the action because that is the action that rises before you in the moment with all its grace and power and majesty -- and because it demands to be done. The action is all.”
Source: Fierce Consciousness: Surviving the Sorrows of Earth and Self
“Why do they hate us so much?"
I was thoughtful and took my time answering. It was a question I often asked myself.
"I think it's because they don't know us. At their core, racists and anti-Semites are poor, ignorant souls. Fear is what makes hatred and fear comes from not knowing people.”
Source: The Teacher of Warsaw
“Why do they have to move in packs?" Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. "How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested.”
“Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”
“Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?”
“Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”
“Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way.”
“Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”
Source: My Losing Season
“Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?”
“Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?”
“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?”
“Why do they say ghosts are cold? Mine are warm, a breath dampening your cheek, a voice when you thought you were alone.”
Source: Marlena
“Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?”
“Why do they take "artist" so lightly?
Do they know what art is? Seriously?”
“why do they think that when you are occupied reading the L.A. Times or perhaps a fine novel that in reality you are dying of loneliness and in specific need of their company?”
Source: Binge
“Why do things cost what they do in New York? How am I expected to survive here?”
Source: Permanent Record
“Why do things get weaker and worse? Why don't they get better? Because we accept that they fall apart! But they don't have to --- they could last forever. Why do things get more expensive? Any fool can see that they should get cheaper as technology gets more efficient. It's despair to accept the senility of obsolescence...”
Source: The Mosquito Coast
“Why do things happen the way they do? Is there some kind of order in all this chaos that we just don't see, or is it all, as the mathematically minded people would like us to believe, just random coincidence? If you put one hundred apes in a room, they'll tell you, with one hundred typewriters, and given an infinite amount of time and bananas, one of them would eventually churn out the complete Oxford dictionary. It's all statistical math and probability. The odds of winning the lottery are greater than the odds of getting struck by lightning, but someone wins, don't they? And people get hit by lightning disturbingly more often that you would think. Their point is, eventually all things happen. No matter how philosophically unprejudiced you are, you can't argue with statistical probabilities. But you can certainly give the mathematicians some substantial cud to chew on, can't you? For instance, sure, everything may be eventual from a statistical point of view, but what happens to the formula if you plug in when a particular thing happens? The fortuitousness of the timing? Or combine a particular coincidence with other seemingly non-related coincidences that might have occurred within the same general time frame? We've all had it happen. It's one of our favorite phrases: "Why me? Why now?" Well, when you take the "when" into account, all kinds of very interesting and un-mathematical things begins to happen. The coincidence becomes too coincidental to be a coincidence.”
“Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.”
“Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?”
Source: Lolita
“Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?”
“Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.”
“Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?”
“Why do travelers depart as they do, leaving an incomplete tale of footprints in the earth.”
“Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?”
Source: The book of questions
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
“Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.”
“Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.”
Source: Moonrise
“Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.”
“Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.”
“Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?”
“Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?”
“Why do we act as though our sin disqualifies us from the grace of God? That is the only thing that qualifies us! Anything else is a self-righteous attempt to earn God's grace. You cannot trust God's grace 99 percent. It's all or nothing. The problem, as I pointed out earlier, is that we want partial credit for our salvation. We want to be 1 percent of the equation. But if we try to save ourselves, we forfeit the salvation that comes from Jesus Christ alone, by grace through faith.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“Why do we adults complicate that which is so simple.”
Source: Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
“Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.”
Source: Gabriel's Rapture
“Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive!”
“Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
Source: Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream
“Why do we always fight?” she whispered. “You know why.” Yeah, she did. “It’s science.” “Combustible chemistry,” he agreed. “Dangerous.”
“Why do we always find “men at work” signs and not women?
Because our lady-bosses are always at work regardless of what their job is.
No, they don't need coat of arms around them.”
“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”
“Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.”
“Why do we as animals often struggle to cope with suffering and devastation that occurs because we are so far removed from our dear loved ones who have departed from us forever in the heavenly realms or when we encounter a challenge in our own life situations that may take us down a downward path of emotional disempowerment?" The Rabbit remarked.
The eagle responded, "to achieve an environment of lasting peace, we need adversity and the harrowing experience of living through tragic events. No matter how hard we may strive, it is inevitable that we will all have to endure hardship at some period of time in our journey through our lives. Every animal inherits the same inherent defect, just like the wind will carry us away into the infinite abyss at the very moment of death. While you may decide to pursue happiness, you may also have the choice to suffer grieving as well, and it is up to you, as all of us will always have the gift of guilt which is keeping us in the present circumstances that we find ourselves in.”
“Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.”
Source: A Million Doorways
“Why do we ask the important questions after they've been answered?”
Source: The Back of the Turtle
“Why do we become so angry with different perspectives? Do we not understand how perspectives are formed?
It takes a lifetime of every five sensory experience, correlated with familial, cultural, traditional, etc. conditioning, for one perspective (out of billions) to be formed within an individual mind.
Seeing as to how no two individuals have ever lived an identical five sensory lifetime worth of experiences, it is only natural that we have differing perspectives.”
“Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' It is the only popular religion there.”