Quotes 8121 till 8140 of 8601.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
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Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
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Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
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Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
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Winter, spring, summer, or fall, All you have to do is call And I'll be there. You've got a friend.
Source: Youve Got a Friend (1971)
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