Why Me Quotes - Page 3

• The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Appreciate, Different

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• In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Eye, Found You

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• Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially." "Why me?" "You know- your mama." "What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

  Markus Zusak

  Loyalty, Home, Exercise

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• Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?" He grinned. "We can do it in the front seat instead, if you prefer. Or on the hood of the car." "I'm not doing it on the hood of the car." "Is that a dare?" Why me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Car, Looks, Burgers

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• Why me, lord? Don't answer that!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Answers, Lord

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• His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Mirrors, Wings, Bird

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• A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

  Fay Weldon

  Eye, Men, Males

  Fay Weldon (1967). “... and the wife ran away”

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• Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Mother, Queens, Heart

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.264, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ocean, People, Pretty Woman

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Spiritual, Jobs, Mean

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Dna, Discovery

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• One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Success, Men, Attention

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• These things are sent to try us, but why me?

  Lynda Bellingham

  Trying, Experience

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• Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to burst their bubble, but they should just give it up now. Zach Braff doesn't sway that way, you know?

  Zach Braff

  Hate, Men, Giving

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• There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

  Israel Zangwill

  Men, Hair, Long

  Israel Zangwill (2012). “The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes”, p.180, tredition

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• I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Long, Laughing

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

  John A. Gotti

  Blessed, Doors, Healthy

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• I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

  Warren Farrell

  Sacrifice, Men, Construction Workers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief

  Wilhelmina Baird

  Grief

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Fundamentals, Unions, Reason Why

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.

  Caroline Anthonypillai

  Leadership, Should, Mines

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• One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Country, Men, Practice

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• If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

  Mary J. Blige

  Journey, Understanding, Goes On

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