People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
Shia LaBeouf

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

America has everything, why should they want us.
George Harrison

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
Gene Simmons

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
G. Gordon Liddy

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
Jo Brand

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Marilyn vos Savant

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Marilyn vos Savant