Why Not Quotes - Page 17

• [The Angels are] a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay?

  Bobby Abreu

  Team, Angel, Opportunity

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• They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

  Andre Ethier

  Running, Home, Guy

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• We have so much patience with ourselves, why not borrow some of that and use it on others.

  Lettie Cowman

  Use

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• That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre.

  Christoph Waltz

  Ignorance, Interesting, Risk

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• And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

  Elaine Stritch

  Life Changing, Aging, Something New

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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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• 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, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

  Paul Newman

  Business, Crazy, Ideas

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• 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? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Pain, Life Is

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• If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• 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. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.

  Robert S. Mulliken

  Suicide, Science, Interesting

  Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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 step forward and greet it.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Moving, Pushing

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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 he is

  Arnold Rothstein

  Men, Dumb, Mobster

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• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• 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 the elements of matter. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Stars, Science, Growth

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

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Philosophy, Suffering, Facts

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• I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

  Patrick Ewing

  Basketball, Play, Gold

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• I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Gratitude, Positivity, Awards

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Church, Rebellious

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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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• 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. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?

  Will Smith

  Attitude, Believe, Mind

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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, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Strong, War, Animal

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