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"The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?"
"Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it."
"Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?"
"'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'"
"Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?"
"I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em."
"I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'"
"You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral."
"You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?"
"Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?"
"There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?"
"I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment."
"We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?"
"Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!"
"Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything."
"It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?"
"We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?"
"Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew."
"Brittany and I don't date other people." "Why not?" "It's called being boyfriend and girlfriend."
"Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?"
