Why Not Quotes - Page 20

• No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Player

  "Big game star or flat-track bully: Does Cristiano Ronaldo deliver in the big games?". www.mirror.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

  Thornton Wilder

  Adventure, Life Is, Ends

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• Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, People, Looks

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• How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Kids, Differences

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• This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?

  Margot Kidder

  Years, Guy, Remakes

  "No kidding". Interview with Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Why not show off if you've got something to show?

  January Jones

  Shows, Ifs, Showing Off

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Women, History, Abuse

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.189, Gospel Light Publications

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• Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

  Carl Sagan

  Religion, Steps, Ifs

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• Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

  Fred Emery

  Change, Adaptive, Adapting

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• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

  George Wells Beadle

  Believe, Science, Self

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• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  W. D. Richter

  Flower, Space, Ships

  "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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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 about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

  Boris Kodjoe

  People, Black, First Impression

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• I want to date Cheryl Cole. She is a looker, she's the one. I love her accent, its so sexy. She's free and I'm still a bachelor. That girl is so beautiful, Ill treat her well. I'm thinking weddings one day, why not? Just think of the kids. I'm getting ahead of myself here, I haven't even met the girl.

  Chace Crawford

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

  Garrett Morgan

  Success, African American, Trying

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• Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Self, Dying

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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• Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

  Van Jones

  Oil, America, Climate

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Strong, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

  Edward Albee

  Regret, Thinking, Awful

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• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Individual, Institutions

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

  David Platt

  Ideas, Giving, Excess

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.123, Multnomah

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• I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

  Mordecai Richler

  Games, Feminist, Pot

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• I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

  Robbie Williams

  Sex, Nice, Thinking

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• If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow - through our premature death or through His unexpected coming - what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgivenesses would we extend? What testimonies would we bear? If we would do those things then, why not now?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Practice, Today, Bears

  "Preparation for the Second Coming". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2004.

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