Why Should Quotes

#1. If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

Dale Carnegie

#5. Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#6. But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?'
'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.

Jami Attenberg

#7. Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.

Lu Xun

#8. Why should people importune the Lord about small trials and petty ailments, and at the same time neglect to ask His guidance on matters of love and marriage which make or mar one's life?

Nephi Anderson

#9. Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

Kangana Ranaut

#10. Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

#11. Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#12. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

George Orwell

#13. There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

Robert Redford

#14. If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

Svetlana Kuznetsova

#15. Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Emil Zatopek

#16. There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Elizabeth Hawes

#17. Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

Andy Stanley

#18. Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

John Fowles

#19. But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past - out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?

Leo Tolstoy

#20. He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement.
"Why should he be?" Kazul said.
"Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback.
"What difference does that make to a cat?

Patricia C. Wrede

#21. I see you had no taste for the wine I sent you."

"Such sudden generosity seemed somewhat suspect."

"I can have your head off anytime I want. Why should I need to poison you?"

"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off.

George R R Martin

#22. Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Madeleine L'Engle

#23. A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Jacob Epstein

#24. Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?

John Milton

#25. Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

Thomas Sowell

#26. Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

Ellen Burstyn

#27. Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?

David Levithan

#28. Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne

#29. Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

Meg Cabot

#30. Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#31. I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,
A: It's never gonna last, and
B: It hurts like hell when it's over?

Alyson Noel

#32. But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#34. Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?

Pablo Casals

#35. The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

Philip Kitcher

#36. Celyn merely snarled and stalked away.
"You best go to him, sister, and soothe his hurt feelings."
"Why should I?"
"You know how men are. If you treat them nice and buy them gifts, they will suck your pussy like champion.

G.A. Aiken

#37. The best men are not consistent in good - why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Wilkie Collins

#38. Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true."
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?

Amor Towles

#39. Socrates asked the key question:
why should we be moral?

Arundhati Roy

#40. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.

Rainbow Rowell

#41. Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Amy Leach

#42. Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

Frei Otto

#43. When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed ... why should we fear for our future?

Winston S. Churchill

#44. Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Kourtney Kardashian

#45. Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Jamie Zawinski

#46. When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Henry David Thoreau

#47. After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

Eva Gabor

#48. It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#49. Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Sue Townsend

#50. I never aspired to be the PM ... Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

Tuhin A. Sinha

#51. Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect?

William Carlos Williams

#52. Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

Zach Braff

#53. We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.

E. M. Forster

#54. Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Albert J. Nock

#55. Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

Tony Galento

#56. If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Zicheng Hong

#57. Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

Susan B. Anthony

#58. It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

Ron Paul

#59. What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators ... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

Jesse Ventura

#60. Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

Dick Cheney

#61. There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

Frederic Nietzsche

#62. If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#63. The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

#64. Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Thomas Hardy

#65. What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well?

Lurlene McDaniel

#66. Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Donna J. Haraway

#67. You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

Lynne Cox

#68. Why should I apologize for being a monster? No one apologized for making me one.

Torie N. James

#69. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Constance Bowman Reid

#70. People fall in love for stupid reasons. Why should the reasons to break up be that much better?" (Mac)

Marshall Thornton

#71. Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best?

David Bowick

#72. Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos?

John Muir

#73. Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

Doc Holliday

#74. I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

Michel Gondry

#75. Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?

Erin Hunter

#76. But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

Ron Silver

#77. Why should I be so upset about someone who could treat me so badly?

Lindsey Kelk

#78. Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers, and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyles, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?

James Dobson

#79. I watched the couples walking around the lake, 'Maybe it's the New Yorker in me. I'm too used to rushing around. But everyone here is so relaxed, it's like they're moving in slow motion.'

'Why should they rush? They're not going anywhere.

Elizabeth Bard

#80. Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Mark Twain

#81. Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Lucretia Mott

#83. There is no moral reason for humanity to continue, if its ends are limited to itself. And this is how we must stop seeing ourselves. This is why we destroy each other. If we disregard the life around us, why should we not be equally disregarded?

Paul Xylinides

#84. My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

Martin Freeman

#85. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Mario Puzo

#86. Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn't really believe in himself," he would say. "And if he doesn't believe in himself, why should I?

Ken Follett

#87. Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

#88. Come down, luv. Don't be shy. Every wedding ceremony needs witnesses. Why should mine and yours be any different?

A.G. Howard

#89. Society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

Sydney Biddle Barrows

#90. Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Marie Laurencin

#91. The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

Barbara Holland

#92. 12. And why should we not put our trust in Allaah while He indeed has guided us our ways. And we shall certainly bear with patience all the hurt you may cause us, and in Allaah (Alone) let those who trust, put their trust.

Anonymous

#93. We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart

Louisa May Alcott

#94. You give me so much pleasure, why should I ever want to hurt you?

Samuel R. Delany

#95. If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

Vladimir Lenin

#96. You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

Paramahansa Yogananda

#97. Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

Peter Tork

#98. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

#99. Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more
adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth.
Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

Frank O'Hara

#100. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Mahatma Gandhi