Why Not Quotes - Page 2

• Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

  Jason Collins

  Instant

  "NBA center Jason Collins becomes first openly gay player in major US sports" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Winning, Want, Chance

  "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer" by Paul Hunter, The Toronto Star, p. S02, June 12, 2008.

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• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

  Carson Daly

  Thinking, Cycling, Mtv

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• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  Sepp Blatter

  Soccer, Football, Volleyball

  "Make-up and short shorts improving women's football, says Brazilian official". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2015.

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Prison, Graves, Edges

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• If someone asked you, why not help him out?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Helping, Ifs

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• If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

  Idries Shah

  Attitude, Trying, Influence

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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• And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

  Hilary Mantel

  Military, July, Secret

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• Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Book, Writing, Science

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Believe, People, Giving

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• We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

  Robert Reich

  Home, Class, Wealth

  "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Believe, Son, Thinking

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• The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Self, Law, Expectations

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• I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

  Samuel Adams

  Land, Produce, Taxes

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• I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people and customs, and I know you were raised inside a cage. The last thing you need is to be saddled with a man who can barely walk. Why don't you just go and get your own place and live? I'll be happy to put you on all my accounts. You'll never want for anything. (Adron)I can't do that. (Livia)Why not? (Adron)Because I love you. (Livia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love, Men, Long

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• As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

  Montel Williams

  Believe, Questioning Why, World

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• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  Gary North

  Biblical, Blessing, Winning

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• An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Atheist, Warrior, Perfect

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• So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

  Sister Souljah

  White, Gang Members, Killing

  "In Her Own Disputed Words; Transcript of Interview That Spawned Souljah's Story". Interview with David Mills, The Washington Post, June 16, 1992.

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• The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?

  Amanda Marcotte

  Thinking, Expression, Feminist

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• When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

  Josh Linkner

  Ifs And, What If, Force

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2011

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• Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right.

  Noah Webster

  Lying, Drinking, Winter

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• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  Richard Land

  Cat, Grandmother, Aunt

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