Why Did I Bother Quotes

#1. Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Daniel J. King

#2. If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?

Noam Chomsky

#3. Did this bother him because he'd made rules about his life? Or did the rules about his life come because things like this bothered him?

Laurelin Paige

#4. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

Ben Saunders

#5. Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.

Marilyn Suttle

#6. At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

Donald Pleasence

#7. I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

Amanda Palmer

#8. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

#10. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#12. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

#13. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig

#14. The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."

Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.

Neil Hayes

#15. I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said.
"Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.

Katharine Kerr

#16. I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

Creed Bratton

#17. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

B.C. Forbes

#18. I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager ... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

Vivienne Westwood

#19. Why did God even bother to create minds that naturally gauge their level of confidence in a belief on the evidence and arguments for and against it if he's only pleased with minds that can make themselves more certain than the evidence and arguments for it warrant? I just don't get it!

Gregory A. Boyd

#20. Who threw the stone at me? he asked himself. No one. But why does it bother me? I've undergone it before, during fusion. While using my empathy box, like everyone else. This isn't new. But it was. Because, he thought, I did it alone.

Philip K. Dick

#21. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?

Mitch Albom

#22. Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this.

Cassandra Clare

#23. My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was "why bother?" This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail.

Carlos Wallace

#24. Now I know why I don't bother with yoga - it's too hard, that's why. When I did "dog pose" I thought I'd never be able to get up again. I'll just have a lie down and relax with an uplifting book for a few minutes.

Anonymous

#25. After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?'
'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?'
'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.

Deanna Raybourn

#26. Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.

Douglas Adams

#27. Of course, the Big Bad Wolf does yoga, Sabrina thought. Why did I even bother to ask?

Michael Buckley

#28. If I bother you so much, why did you let me kiss you again in that hospital? Is the reason to screw up my head more, to see if you still have the knack for it? Because congratulations Nell, you've succeeded yet again.

LeeAnn Whitaker

#29. That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

Frances Farmer

#30. I will not serve with oathbreakers and murderers.
[Jaime, Inwardly] Then why did you ever bother putting on a sword?

George R R Martin

#31. It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

Joe Flanigan

#32. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Julian Barnes

#33. I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.

Konnie Huq

#34. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.

Miguel Ruiz

#35. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.

Nicole Castle

#36. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Lawrence Dale Bell

#37. Good morning, Si! I saw a rat in the bathroom, but he was taking a nice nap and we didn't bother each other.

Cassandra Clare

#38. The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

Bob Dole

#39. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

Sharon Weil

#40. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Nate Silver

#41. One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.

Dada Bhagwan

#42. Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

Jodi Picoult

#43. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

Jeff Lindsay

#44. I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

Samantha Fox

#45. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage

#46. Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.

Bernard Pomerance

#47. Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Nick Harkaway

#48. Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

Morris Hite

#49. Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

Augusten Burroughs

#50. We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here.

Richard Dawkins

#51. My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music ... however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.

Richard Clayderman

#52. Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

Norman Lamm

#53. Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please.

A.A. Milne

#54. The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.

Laird Barron

#55. If you let it bother you, it will bother you.

Tanya Masse

#56. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Jay Maisel

#57. Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

Gustav Mahler

#58. All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say ... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.

Jerry Mathers