Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.
Bill Maher

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
Bill Maher

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
Bobby Knight

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
John Belushi

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
Joey Adams

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Warren G. Bennis

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Johnny Depp

Why should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie Chaplin