Top 100 Why Should I Quotes
#1. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.
Groucho Marx
#2. The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Cecil B. DeMille
#3. But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#4. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Suzanne Vega
#6. Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?
El-P
#7. When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
Ian McEwan
#8. Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
Guy Kawasaki
#9. Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?
Sheldon Adelson
#10. People come and go, in and out of each other's lives like it's nothing. So I don't know how/why this should be a big deal.
Lauren Barnholdt
#11. Hey, er ... " said Zaphod, "what's your name?"
The man looked at them doubtfully.
"I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It seems very odd to
give a bundle of vague sensory perceptions a name.
Douglas Adams
#12. What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out.
John Knowles
#13. Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Theodore Roosevelt
#14. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
#15. I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
Jeremy Clarkson
#16. Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of spirituality, that you can become the author of your own existence, the maker of personal destiny. Your brain is already performing this service for you unconsciously.
Deepak Chopra
#17. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.
Mary Borden
#18. Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
Franz Liszt
#20. I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
Aasif Mandvi
#21. 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
Benjamin Carson
#22. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#23. Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#24. Why should I run all the way down to 17th St. to buy dirty, badly made books whenI can buy clean, beautiful ones
from you without leaving the typewriter? From whereI sit,London's a lot closer than 17th Street.
Helene Hanff
#25. There's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?
Ayn Rand
#26. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?
Richard Dawkins
#27. Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents
we didn't rear them
and yet we do.
Peg Bracken
#28. Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want."
"I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?"
"I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?
Saul Bellow
#29. WHY: Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. When I say WHY, I don't mean to make money - that's a result. By WHY I mean what is your purpose, cause or belief? WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?
Simon Sinek
#30. But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.
David Strorm
#31. I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?
Melissa M
#32. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#33. If one were to ask ... "What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft" ... ?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#34. So I see no reason why, just because a couple of womenfolk have kicked the bucket, people should start writing religion about them.
Halldor Laxness
#35. From a scheme once she's started it. Then why should I care? I've let Celia play others since
Laurelin Paige
#36. If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?
Alberto Giacometti
#37. If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.
Lee Smith
#38. You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.
Sharon Stone
#39. I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?
Angie Thomas
#40. I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
Plutarch
#41. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Bob Marley
#42. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.
Hollis Stacy
#43. I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.
Lawrence Weiner
#44. Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit ...
Meg Cabot
#45. To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
Langston Hughes
#46. I am a bad boy." He hops on his bike, and I do the same. "That's exactly why you should stay far, far away from me.
Addison Moore
#47. I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.
Phife Dawg
#48. He should have just checked it. I don't understand why some people insist on hauling those giant bags around everywhere they go - not when you can check one bag free on international flights. Check it at the gate if you don't trust the belt system.
Sabra Hunter
#49. Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." "Why not? You've done it before. And you've got a new gun and everything.
Jim Butcher
#50. I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?
Andrea Corr
#51. The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity.
Henry Johnson Jr
#52. Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.
Christina Engela
#53. I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."
"That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."
"You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that?"
"Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do.
David Eddings
#54. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
Jimmy Connors
#55. I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.
Sonakshi Sinha
#56. Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.
Doug Benson
#57. I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.
Lark Voorhies
#58. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Math gives us a way of being unsure in a principled way: not just throwing up our hands and saying "huh," but rather making a firm assertion: "I'm not sure, this is why I'm not sure, and this is roughly how not-sure I am." Or even more: "I'm unsure, and you should be too.
Jordan Ellenberg
#60. Why did he have to be sensible? This maddened me. It was my body. I should be able to decide when and if I needed medical attention. I let out a determined huff. They could try to make me go, but I wouldn't be forced.
Brenda Pandos
#61. I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.
Andy Dick
#62. Ten years a wold, and you land here and think to prince about the islands, but you know nothing and no one. Why should men fight and die for you?' 'I am their lawful prince,' Theon said stiffly. 'By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you forgotten?
George R R Martin
#63. I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
Nadine Velazquez
#64. It doesn't bother me," I said. "If you don't mind looking forty years old at twenty, smelling like an ashtray, and getting lung cancer, why should I?
Michelle Hodkin
#65. I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?
Josephine Hart
#66. Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!
Melanie
#67. So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
Ted Nelson
#68. Then why haven't you killed yourself? (Astrid)
Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,-A life-complete in death-complete to die.
John B. Tabb
#70. I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?
Thulasiraj Ravilla
#71. HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you.
Tony Kushner
#72. Mai whispers, "Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe."
"You of all people," Nicholas says, "should know that freedom is more important than being safe.
E.J. Squires
#73. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.
Christoph Fischer
#74. How often have I held back my complaint: Why should the Lebanese homeland be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Egyptian loaf be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Syrian roof be incompatible with Palestine? Why should Palestine be incompatible with Palestine?
Mahmoud Darwish
#75. Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.
Frank Kameny
#76. I just think that if someone has a problem with me, well it's their problem to deal with. Why should I feel bad about it? I'm not responsible for what other people do or don't feel.
Suzanne Wright
#77. A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.
Peter Lindbergh
#78. This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.
Suzan Colon
#79. I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big part of me is saying I should give up, I can't. Even when I don't want to keep going, I still do it
Rachel Joyce
#80. I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?
Ogden Nash
#81. Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? (Thoreau).
Maggie Nelson
#82. I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
Bill Bryson
#83. Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Why should I change to suit other people's inadequacy?
John Wiltshire
#85. If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?
Richard Baxter
#86. Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
Pietro Aretino
#87. I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
Oscar Robertson
#88. Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.
Chris Rock
#89. Rather than list all the things I don't like about him," Daisy said finally, "it's far easier to say there is no reason why I should like him.
Lisa Kleypas
#90. I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
Whoopi Goldberg
#91. Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
Alex Winter
#92. Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as ... private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.
Amie Kaufman
#93. I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting
#94. It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness?
George R R Martin
#95. I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.
Robert Loggia
#96. Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you ...
Walt Whitman
#97. They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.
'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.
Terry Pratchett
#98. Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
Kay Arthur
#99. But we stayed together, because I don't know why. Maybe because we though we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love.
Stephanie Perkins
#100. My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
Julia Golding
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