W Quotes
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“Why would I torture you when you won't react?" he asked softly in her ear. He straightened, raising an eyebrow. "See? Nothing. No elevated pulse, no pounding heart.”
“Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.”
“Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.”
“Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?”
“Why would I want balls?”
Source: Tinderbox
“Why would I want balls?" She tried to get a grip on her anger as she adapted her favorite Betty White quote. "Have you ever seen a woman taken out with a simple kick to the crotch? Hell no, because a vagina can take a beating. I'd like to see you squeeze a baby out of your precious, fragile balls." You intolerant, jizz-headed ass.”
Source: Tinderbox
“Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.”
“Why would I want someone I had to make love me?”
Source: First & Then
“Why would I want to be like everyone elsewhen I could be myself? I am curious, unique, and proud to be me, so I stumbled out of this box without making a sound.”
Source: In the Land of Boxes
“Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.”
“Why would I want to believe this?
I am a human being having a spiritual experience.
When I could Choose to Live this;
I AM a Spiritual being having a human experience.
By True Faith, living and embracing the latter, There can be no fear, no worry. Existing as a Spiritual Being there is Truly nothing in this world that can harm me. For I AM Eternal, absent beginning or end.”
“Why would I want to fit in?”
Source: Need
“Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.”
“Why would I want to join an organization that would encourage people like myself to become members.”
“Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.”
“Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.”
“Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.”
“Why would I want to watch other people kissing," I say, "when I could be kissing you?”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?”
“Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children's show? See, I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.”
“Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?”
“Why would men want to do without women? We adore women.”
“Because they serve you,” she grumbled.
“No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.”
Source: The Sheik's Arranged Marriage
“Why would my words
ever borrow the ink
of their own demise?”
“Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent. It's something that is objective, regardless of how you feel. So, the term gender identity seems to me to be something of an oxymoron. It's not really about one's identity. It's rather a matter of one's self-perception or one's feelings about oneself.”
“Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?”
Source: Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
“Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.”
“Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?”
“Why would people spend good money to have my pants?”
“Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?”
Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
“Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?”
“Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.”
“Why would she pick tunics you don’t like?”
“Because they had to ruin them,” she said, running her hand over her bare shoulder.
Fitz cleared his throat. “I... wouldn’t call that ruined.”
He didn’t say what he would call it, though, and it made her with her Polyglot ability worked for translating Cute Boy so she could figure out if that was suppose to be a compliment.
It kinda felt like one.”
Source: Flashback
“Why would she settle for the edges when she was my whole circle?”
Source: Drift
“Why would Shinyun be after Tessa?” Magnus said.
Jem looked at him in surprise. “Well—because she’s an eldest curse, of course. Like you.”
Magnus blinked. “You mean, because she’s the daughter of a Prince of Hell? Like me?”
“No. It’s more than that. Tessa went to the Labyrinth not just to hide but to research. Eldest curses are not just children of Princes of Hell. They’re the oldest living children of those princes. There can only be nine of them alive at any one time, and I know of only two. And I’m talking to one of them and married to the other.”
Source: The Lost Book of the White
“Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.”
“Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?”
“Why would someone do this to me?
Why?
I've done nothing wrong to anyone.
Lie...
I've been a good mom.
Lie...
A good wife.
Lie...
A good doctor.
Lie.”
Source: The Night It Ended
“Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he’d have drown himself at high tide. My sister- so shy, so sincere- once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I’ve ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that’s the most radical contradiction of ourselves.”
Source: Dead Languages
“Why would teenage boys go out on a boat in a storm?” Stacey wondered. “Well, now that I say it aloud, it kinda answers itself.”
Source: The Trailwalker
“Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!”
“Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?”
Source: The Holiness of God
“Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?”
“Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.”
“Why would the government care about me? Because they made you into what you are.”
“Why would the off-world colonists want troublesome, humanlike slaves rather than nice, efficient machines? It's simple. Machines don't suffer. They aren't capable of it. A machine doesn't know when it's being raped.
There's no power relationship between you and a machine. That's been the U.N.'s whole pitch about the attractions of the off-world colonies all along. The big human thrill. For a replicant to suffer, to give its owners that whole master-slave energy, it has to have emotions.”
Source: Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
“Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?”
Source: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
“Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.”
“Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?”
“Why would they follow me?” I asked Swedish. “It doesn’t make sense.”
“They’re made of trash and Fog,” he said. “You think they make sense?”
Source: The Lost Compass