Why Not Quotes - Page 11

• Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

  Erica Jong

  Parenting, Individual

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• God already knows the naked truth about us, of course.
  Why not acknowledge it?

  Philip Yancey

  Naked, Acknowledge, Courses

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• Admit something.
  
  Everyone you see, you say to them
  "Love me."
  
  Of course you do not do this out loud:
  Otherwise,
  Someone would call the cops.
  
  Still, though, think about this,
  This great pull in us to connect.
  
  Why not become the one
  Who lives with a full moon in each eye
  That is always saying,
  
  With that sweet moon
  Language
  
  What every other eye in this world
  Is dying to
  Hear?

  Hafez

  Sweet, Eye, Moon

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• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Advice

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• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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• Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked social norms before they had religion? Did they never assist others in need, or complain about an unfair deal? Humans must have worried about the functioning of their communities well before the current religions arose, which is only a few thousand years ago.

  Frans de Waal

  Believe, Self, Years

  "Morals Without God?". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking

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• I mean there's a college kid left in everyone. I bet you, too, if you could go back you would for a night or two, so why not? My brother's still in college, my little brother, so it's always good to go back and get a little glimpse of it and to hang out with him for a weekend or two.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

  Carl E. Olson

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

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• Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

  George Harrison

  Light, Darkness, Unhappy

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• I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.

  George Stults

  Brother, Sunset, Class

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

  Fred Emery

  Change, Adaptive, Adapting

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• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

  George Wells Beadle

  Believe, Science, Self

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• Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, People, Looks

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• If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

  Thornton Wilder

  Adventure, Life Is, Ends

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• One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

  William Lyon Phelps

  Dream, Appreciation, Appreciate

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• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Religion, Wish

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• We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Past, Asking

  "The Spiritual Man".

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• Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

  John Dos Passos

  Country, Pigs, Immigration

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Sea

  Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810

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• If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Life And Love

  Wilt Chamberlain, David Shaw (1973). “Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door”

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• Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Bad Ass, Famous Last Words, Dying Last Words

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Player

  "Big game star or flat-track bully: Does Cristiano Ronaldo deliver in the big games?". www.mirror.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  W. D. Richter

  Flower, Space, Ships

  "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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