Why Not Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best player in the League? I don't see why-why-why can't I do that? I think I work hard, I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it and if that's me going out or doing whatever, I'm willing to do it because I know in the long run, it's going to help me.

  Derrick Rose

  Running, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
  R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
  C: Courageous or Careless,
  K: for the Kangols which I've got,
  That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  Slick Rick

  Rap, Names, Hip Hop

  Song: Mona Lisa, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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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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• 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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• Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

  Hafez

  Jobs, Worry, Negativity

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• There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

  Karen Horney

  Reason Why, Lasts, Should

  Karen Horney “The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures”, Yale University Press

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• The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

  Christina Applegate

  Holiday, Animal, People

  "Fur: Get Me Not!". The PETA Interview, www.peta.org.

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• Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Philosophy, Suffering, Facts

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• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

  Bridges, Rallying Point, Giving

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• Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Alcohol, Righteous

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• My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

  John D. Rockefeller

  Mother, Wife, Typical

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• Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Crowds, March

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• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Church, Rebellious

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• Einstein uses his concept of God more often than a Catholic priest. Once I asked him:
  'Tomorrow is Sunday. Do you want me to come to you, so we can work?'
  'Why not?'
  'Because I thought perhaps you would like to rest on Sunday.'
  Einstein settled the question by saying with a loud laugh: 'God does not rest on Sunday either.'

  Leopold Infeld

  God, Sunday, Laughing

  Leopold Infeld (1941). “Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist”

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• Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.325

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• We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

  John Lennon

  Love, Motivational, Peace

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• But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Alden Nowlan, Walter Learning, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1976). “Frankenstein: the play”, Irwin Publishing

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• Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

  Pippa Middleton

  Christmas, Running, White

  "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Cities, People

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• Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?

  William T. Vollmann

  Religious, Angel, Letters

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin

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• Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

  Ann Coulter

  Phones, Years, America

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