W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.”
“Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?”
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.”
“Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?”
“Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?”
“Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?”
Source: Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems
“Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.”
“Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.”
“Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.”
“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”
Source: BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature
“Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?”
“Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?”
“Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.”
Source: Definitely Dead
“Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.”
“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.”
“Why don't they teach logic at these schools?”
“Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.”
Source: War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
“Why don't we all just get a long-neck?”
“Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.”
“Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?”
“Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.”
“Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.”
“Why don't we follow our yearning?”
“Why don't we get drunk and screw?”
“why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)”
Source: Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness
“Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?”
“Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!”
“Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?”
“Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.”
“Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa
“Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?”
“Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?”
“Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.”
“Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.”
“Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?”
“Why don't we scale up those things that do work.”
“Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'”
“Why don't we talk about your love life? Clary countered. "What about you and Alec?" "Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and so I refuse to acknowledge him. He sent me a fire message asking for a favor the other day. It was addressed to 'Warlock Bane' as if I were a perfect stranger. He's still hung up on Jace, I think, though that relationship will never go anywhere. A problem I imagine you know nothing about.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.”
“Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.”
“Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?”
“Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?”
“Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?”
“Why don't you be together with me? If you can't say it out now, then you just answer by selecting...
1st, if you say YES, we will get married right away
2nd, if you say NO, I will use every possible way to make you say YES and get married right away
3rd, if you say you need time to consider, I will give you one day to think over it and then get married
So you just choose, is it YES or NO? No, it's either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Marry or not marry?”
“Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?”
“Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).”
“Why don't you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.”
“Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.”