W Quotes
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“Why does anyone do the things they do?”
“Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.”
“Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it, when you’re up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don’t exactly notice how bad things really are. It’s not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.”
“Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are.”
“Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll keep coming back, until there's only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday - if it keeps coming back often enough - another star will find it again.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.”
“Why does baloney avoid the grinder?”
“Why does chemo always have side effects like sickness and hair loss?
Why not 'invisibility' or 'spontaneous orgasms'?”
“Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?”
“Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.”
“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
“Why does death not come? It can only be because God still has some purpose in keeping me alive. I must still achieve something before I am permitted to leave this life. But what could it be?”
Source: The Devil's Missal
“Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?”
“Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce?”
“Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!”
“Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.”
“Why does every relationship end the same way?" In most cases the answer is, "Because every relationship started the same way.”
Source: Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions
“Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.”
“Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.”
“Why does every young church planter these days feel compelled to articulate a "mission statement" and a "vision statement," which will then be regularly rehearsed on stage, in videos, and in all the church's literature? If you had asked pastors for the first two thousand years of church history what their mission statement was, they would have looked confused by the question and then probably opened their Bibles and pointed to the last verses of Matthew 28.”
Source: One Assembly: Rethinking the Multisite and Multiservice Church Models
“Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?”
“Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.”
“Why does everybody need to talk about everything?”
“Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".”
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?”
Source: I Love Dick
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to come off clean?”
Source: I Love Dick
“Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?”
“Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?”
“Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?”
“Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?”
“Why does everyone like this movie? And Americans kept going to the movie. So Hollywood figures out the market, and the market wants to know what happened in Benghazi.”
“Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range.”
“Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.”
“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?”
Source: Meant to Be
“Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?”
“Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!”
“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?”
“Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“Why does everyone wants everything permanent in their temporary life?”
“Why does everything always feel worse at night?”
“Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?”
“Why does everything these days feel so…”
She helped him along: “Clinical? Cold?”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“Why does evil exist? Simple: it’s part of the dialectic of existence. It’s inevitable and necessary. In many ways, evil – and overcoming it – is the whole point of existence. How else do we become divine exemplars if we don’t overcome all the worst things in ourselves and in others?”
Source: The God Equation
“Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.”
“Why does exercise feel so alien to me anyway? Why doesn't it come naturally to girls like it seems to come to boys?”
Source: Big Bones
“Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?”
“Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.”
“Why does God ask traumatized people to look at the trauma they initiated through their sin and rebellion? For the same reason God asks us to: it is the truth, and we are free only when we lift up the truth.”
Source: White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
“Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.”
Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist