Why Not Quotes
657 Why Not quotes by 555 unique authors
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
— Donald Trump
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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore,…
— Shania Twain
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Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids,…
— Steven Tyler
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will…
— Kanye West
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Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.
— Robbie Williams
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in…
— Marianne Williamson
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write…
— Virginia Woolf
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
— Alber Elbaz
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of…
— Jack Kerouac
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Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be…
— Markus Zusak
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The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
— Annie Dillard
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A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures:…
— Mark Steyn
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
— Aldous Huxley
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I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not…
— Charles Frazier
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Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the…
— Tom Robbins
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We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?
— Natalie Angier
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I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
— Sylvia Plath
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
— George Orwell
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,…
— Ann Brashares
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The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the…
— Susanna Kaysen
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Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
— Goldie Hawn
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And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target…
— Cornelia Funke
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