W Quotes
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“Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”
“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”
“Why not’ is more powerful than ‘why’.”
“Why not? It's natural selection. Just like nature." I wrinkled my nose. "Boudas love this argument, because it gives them an excuse to do all the wrong things. 'I'm sorry I screwed your sister and got my penis stuck in your German shepherd. It's in my nature. I just couldn't help myself.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic
“Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?”
“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
“Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.”
“Why not learn from the positive aspect of Canadian populism, which is the way to deal with it? Learn from the negative side, but it's more important to learn from the positive side, because it's an enormous amount of energy.”
“Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.”
“Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.”
“Why not liberate voters to actually vote your values?”
“Why not live now instead of someday?”
“Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.”
“Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”
“Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?”
“Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.”
“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”
“Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.”
“Why not now?’ Horgias said. ‘We could go back in now and take it.’
‘You can certainly try.’
Pantera rolled his tongue around his teeth and then said something in the native tongue that neither of us understood. When we made no response, he repeated it, more slowly, louder.
We looked at each other, and at him. He smiled tightly. ‘I said, “You are Roman and we of Eleazir’s party take great pleasure in slaughtering your countrymen. We took five days to skin alive a man who tried to join you. Imagine what we can do now, when we have all winter.”’
‘Very funny.’ I wasn’t smiling.
Nor was Pantera. ‘If you want to go, I won’t stop you. But without fluency in both Aramaic and Hebrew, you will die.”
Source: Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth
“Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's
home TV receiver?”
“Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.”
“Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?”
Source: City of Glass
“Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.”
“Why not say that the meaning and purpose of the sexual powers is pleasure? Certainly sex is pleasurable, but there is nothing distinctive about that. In various ways and degrees, the exercise of every voluntary power is pleasurable. It is pleasurable to eat, pleasurable to breath, even pleasurable to flex the muscles of the leg. The problem is that eating is pleasurable even if I am eating too much, breathing is pleasurable even if I am sniffing glue, flexing the muscles of the leg is pleasurable even if I am kicking the dog. For a criterion of when it is good to enjoy each pleasure, one must look beyond the fact that it is a pleasure. Consider an analogy between sex and eating. The purpose of eating is to take in nutrition, but eating is pleasurable, so suppose that we were to say that the purpose of eating is pleasure, too. Then it would seem that any way of eating that gives pleasure is good, whether it is suitable for nutrition or not. Certain ancient Romans are said to have thought this way. To prolong the pleasure of their feasts, they purged between courses. I hope it is not difficult to recognize that such behavior is disordered. The more general point I am trying to make is that although we find pleasure in exercising our sexual powers, pleasure is not their purpose; it only provides a motive for using these powers, and a dangerous one, too, which may at times conflict with their true purposes and steer us wrong. Besides, to think of pleasure as the purpose of intercourse is to treat our bodies merely as tools for sending agreeable sensations to our minds. They are of inestimably greater dignity than that, for they are part of what we are.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex
“Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.”
“Why not show off if you've got something to show?”
“Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.”
“Why not smile and preserve, why not let the light summon, why not spread the love, the love we all deserve”
Source: Heart's Call
“Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”
Source: Speak
“Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read in texts of business economics that they could just as well have a system in which the management is responsible to stakeholders.”
“Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.
And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you... Something that you’ve been fighting for your entire life that’s taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That’s self-love.
That's why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much.
The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.”
“Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!”
“Why not stop awhile? Your record is pretty good; you might form younger pilots, and in time go back to your squadron."
"Yes, and people would say that, hoping for no more distinctions, I have given up fighting."
"What does it matter? Let people talk, and when you appear in better condition they will understand...you will admit that human strength has its limits."
"Yes," Georges interposed, "a limit which we must endeavor to leave behind. We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything.”
Source: George Guynemer, Knight of the Air
“Why not surround yourself with things that make you content? After all, there's no place like home.”
Source: Champagne and Lemon Drops
“Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?”
Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”
Source: Space, in Chains
“Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?”
“Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.”
“Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.”
Source: Shadow Heir
“Why not whip me now?' he asks, a challenge in his voice.
'Spending a night dreading what will come in the morning is it's own punishment.' She pauses. 'Especially as you now know your own hand can be turned against you.'
Oak looks directly into her eyes. 'Why are you keeping me at all, Wren? Am I a hostage to command? A lover to be punished? A possession to be locked away?'
'That,' she said, bitterness in her voice, 'is what I am trying to figure out myself.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“Why not? Why not anything? If God ain’t a God of why nots, than I say ‘Why bother,’ and I don’t think that’s takin his name in vain, I think it’s tellin the truth about what people need.”
Source: The Sweet by and by
“Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.”
“Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?”