Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn
Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true?
‐‐ Monica Johnson
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron
Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.
‐‐ Bernie Mac
Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
‐‐ Derek Kilmer
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
‐‐ Michael Specter
Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
‐‐ Mary Cassatt
Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
‐‐ Ira Sachs
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
‐‐ Martha Gellhorn
Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.
‐‐ Phyllis Logan
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
‐‐ Patti Smith
Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited.
‐‐ Michelle Paver
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang
Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk
Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
‐‐ Oriana Fallaci
Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
‐‐ Val McDermid
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
‐‐ Patrick Leahy
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
‐‐ Robin Williams
Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
‐‐ Yoko Ono
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
‐‐ Christopher Morley
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.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso
Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?
‐‐ Jenna Morasca
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
‐‐ Ava DuVernay
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.
‐‐ Simon Winchester
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
‐‐ Greg Bear
Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.
‐‐ John Ridley
Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
‐‐ Alex Gibney
Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.
‐‐ Tori Kelly
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.
‐‐ Helen Fisher
Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, 'I just ate a cheeseburger and I'm so mad at myself?'
‐‐ Martina McBride
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
‐‐ Anna Freud
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
‐‐ Carl Lewis
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio
Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin
Why do we have to have another riot?
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell
Why do we have 'Transformers 5 or 6?' Because young kids will go and see it four or five times.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
‐‐ Holly Near
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
‐‐ Robert Henri
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
‐‐ Patrick Stump
Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.
‐‐ Greg Giraldo
Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.
‐‐ Donna Brazile
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
‐‐ Angie Stone
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
‐‐ Lukas Foss