Why Bother Quotes - Page 3

• Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Choices, Complaining, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 06, 2012

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• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

  Holly Black

  Halloween, Swimming, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sleep, Waiting, Needs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

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• Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Pain, Enormous, Bother

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There are people in poverty who, if they have the gumption, say, "I'm leaving here. I'm gonna take three jobs and make it." There are definitely people who do that, and it shapes the rest of their life. And that's almost as unfortunate as someone who says, "Why bother? I'm not even gonna try." There are people consumed by that, and I've been affected by it. It's been a detriment for sure. It was ridiculous, and I don't want to see anyone go through that again. It makes me compassionate, and when I see it, it makes my shoulders tense up, and you remember it.

  Alan Sparhawk

  People, Leaving, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

  Noam Chomsky

  Reading, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I thought, you know, I can sit at home in my La-Z-Boy, on Facebook, and reach more people than I can on a tour. Because I reach 30,000 to 40,000 people for every Facebook post, some even reach 50,000 to 60,000. And I thought, if it's about reaching people, and not about making money, why bother touring?

  Mark Lowry

  Home, People, Making Money

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.

  Jerry Garcia

  Running, Numbers, Teeth

  Source: medium.com

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• Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Crooks, Lasts

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• I had some people say to me, you don`t - you wouldn`t give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

  Chuck Todd

  Crazy, Air, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Civilization, Choices

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forget, Logical, Bother

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• But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

  Mark Steyn

  Winning, People, Taste

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.373, Regnery Publishing

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• You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

  Tom Selleck

  Character, Bother

  Source: collider.com

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• That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

  Amy Sedaris

  Laughing, Done, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

  Lisa Yuskavage

  People, Feelings, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

  LeCrae

  Father, Bother

  Song: Don't Waste Your Life, Album: Rebel

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• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Molly Ivins

  Hair, Texas, Differences

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• Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

  Harrison Owen

  Change, Journey, Space

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• So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in front of me. It's as if you get every brochure for a trip you are going to go on and you get the minutest details of every step along the way. Well, I really doubt you're going to then get in the car and go. You know, it's like, why bother if it's all laid out in front of you?

  Steve Tesich

  Writing, Car, Doubt

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• Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Sleep, Winning, Who I Am

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• Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

  Margaret Atwood

  May, Slides, Eating

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.365, Anchor

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• A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mind, Males, Female

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• We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

  Neil Postman

  Running, Want, Bother

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.61, Vintage

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