Why Not Quotes
657 Why Not quotes by 555 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!
— Claire Williams
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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
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The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
— Edward Weston
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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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All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
— Lawrence Summers
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What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is…
— Milton Friedman
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Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they…
— Richard Hamming
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be…
— Chris Colfer
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I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be…
— Adam Levine
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I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
— Brad Paisley
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I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why…
— Nick Jonas
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I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in…
— Megan Fox
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Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they…
— Richard Dawkins
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A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run…
— Simon Pegg
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Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not…
— Robin Williams
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I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to…
— Andrew Stanton
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I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk…
— Boris Kodjoe
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