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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Everything, Thought, Keep

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace

Mind, Weak, Eternal

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry A. Kissinger

War, Rather, President

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette

Job, Person, Boss

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
Willie Nelson

Worth, Expensive, Divorces

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
Richard Dawkins

Said, Often, Exist

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
Amy Grant

Life, Future, Able

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Fight, Tell, Against

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
Bobby Bowden

Happen, Year, Happened

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Kofi Annan

Live, Stand, Choose

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage, Gay, Wrong

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney

Says, Sign, Window

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter

Keep, Here, Coming

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
George W. Bush

Good, Reason, President

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley

God, Rain, Weather

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Jeff Bezos

Business, Care, Sense

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann

Beautiful, Enjoy, Hurry

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg

Happen, After, Write

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Made, Away

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Joan Baez

Humble, Opinion

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai

God, Care, Problem

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman

Forget, Place, Easy

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Faith, Great, Yourself

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
Steven Adler

Time, Tired, Feeling

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Henry Miller

Work, Good, Joy

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather

Life, Good, Help

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

Art, Opinion, Universe

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
E. M. Forster

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster

Children, Themselves, Middle

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