Why Me Quotes - Page 4

• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Children, Octopus, Eight

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

  Julian Fellowes

  Garden, Needs, Helping

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• I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Atheism, Proud

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Anchor

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• I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Past

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• Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Half, Pay

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• Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Reason Why

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

  Mark Cuban

  Mirrors, Everyday, Looks

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

  Mooji

  Believe, Inspiration, Practice

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• One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Often Is, Mind

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• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  Garry Shandling

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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• They killed me in The Sopranos. I went to David Chase, and I said, "Why me? I'm a detective! You can use me forever!" And he told me, "John, there's a rule in television: Somebody has to die that the audience likes."

  John Heard

  Forever, Sopranos, Using Me

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

  Sharon Stone

  Real, Kids, Thinking

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• Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

  Heidi

  Eye, Math, Blue

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• Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Spiritual, Husband

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• You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have
  to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

  Bill Burr

  Kids, Men, Events

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• No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Two, Atoms, Stones

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• He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Light, Grace

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• There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should want to caress, over and over again, with paintbrush or chisel or hand, these oddly curved fatty sacs, and nothing more humanly endearing than our complicity (I mean the complicity of women) in their obsession.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Adversity, May, Wonder

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• Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

  Willie Aames

  Mean, Idols, Magazines

  "How Willie Aames Went From Teen Heartthrob To Cruise Ship Director" by Lynn Okura, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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