Why Not Quotes

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? — George Bernard Shaw
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. — Paul Harvey
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… — John D. Rockefeller
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
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… — Oliver Goldsmith
When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course,… — Paul Newman
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both?… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin… — Princess Diana
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science.… — Robert S. Mulliken
Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not… — Joan Halifax
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as… — Arnold Rothstein
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great… — Tecumseh
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it… — Truman Capote
I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some.… — Will Smith
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route! — Claire Williams
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? — Edward Weston
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and… — Roland Barthes

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