Whynoyes Quotes & Sayings

That's what I was thinking about before you came. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
"You don't even know why you need to be world-famous; you just think you do. — John Green

Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something. — Stan Morris

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. — Samuel Johnson

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. — David Ogden Stiers

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. — Eric Hoffer

All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance?
Yes. No. Y-Yes ... Naynayno. Whynoyes.
Yes, Promethea is a woman.
Yes, but "because is a woman," that is not important.
But no it precisely its not being important that is so important. — Helene Cixous

You glided over to me and, as I was struggling to think of something intelligent to say, you said "There you are". I often think of that, Sue. Here I am. No matter where I am in the world, "Here I am". — Jessica Brockmole

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time. — Mohsin Hamid

Books remember all the things you cannot contain. — Elizabeth McCracken

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold. — Charles Lamb

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes. — Jacob Hashimoto

I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future. — Hillary Clinton

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused. — Anne Heche