#why not

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#cannot #fight #must #now #out

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#could #i #others #seen #why

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are? ↗

— LeVar Burton

#continue #expand #give #going #i

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. ↗

— George Carlin

#dream #go #never #people #see

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?' ↗

— Dane Cook

#every #every time #i #i always #me

As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it. ↗

— Montel Williams

#believe #call #definitely #did #end

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#bloom #deal #just #make #much