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Related Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? VLADIMIR NABOKOV Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ... WALT WHITMAN Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And... WALT WHITMAN there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why s... NEIL STRAUSS We do not believe investors should extrapolate the William Lyon orders to mean demand in Southern Ca... ALEX BARRON I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature ADOLF HITLER Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NOBOKOV Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Smile at a stranger. See what happens. PATTI LUPONE Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? OSCAR WILDE I see no reason why we should not see a similarly benign inflation outcome this year, WILLIAM POOLE He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. ROWLAND HILL I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team. KAREL POBORSKY Never accept criticism from a stranger , people with no skills at all, like to tell gifted artists h... PATRIK ROSA I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can'... JAMES BLUNT But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to... AGNES SMEDLEY . . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" �... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even
greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV In the mirror we see a stranger, Not the person we were born to be, For we are all pretend... ANTHONY T. HINCKS He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee li... CHARLES DICKENS Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If time does not stop, then why should you KISHAN S CHAUHAN If time does not wait, why should you wait. KISHAN S CHAUHAN Everyone looks at pregnant bellies. Why not let them see something you want them to see? HEATHER WILLIAMS Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. MARK TWAIN Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh,... MARK TWAIN She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was "the stranger". And of course, that was the d... SHANNON L. ALDER I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the sch... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Go on the streets of New Orleans - it's secure, ... Have you been to New Orleans? Did anybody accost... SALVATION ARMY I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high a... CHARLES TUPPER In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not unde... BEI DAO Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes ca... WARD MOORE Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and l... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS He was not a stranger to her nor was she a stranger to him and I think things like that caused the j... WILLIAM MURRAY American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence ... BETH FANTASKEY American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in... BETH FANTASKEY She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Why should I be responsible if the left does not accept democratic decisions? JOERG HAIDER Some enchanted evening, / you may see a stranger / Across a crowded room. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II I just don't see why we should be down. MAYA MOORE Facing alien race has a common approach with facing a stranger. Do not be pretentious familiar! TOBA BETA Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Do you know why many people do not recognize their own brilliance? It's because it shines away from ... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We're having a good time, and we don't see why it should stop. GRETCHEN JACKSON That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out... C.S. LEWIS Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not... ANDREW DOST Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't m... LINDA HOWARD ...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes... INCUBUS I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. SALLY RIDE Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. CHARLES DICKENS Good thing he didn't accost the Coastal Carolina Chanticleer. In addition to a possible assault char... DAN DALY Well, they're going to be back out again. I?m going to see them again. Something needs to be done in... CARL COVEY There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL A man said to a Dervish: “Why do I not see you more often?” The Dervish replied, “Because the ... ROBERT GREENE There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmind... HERMAN MELVILLE Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ... EPICURUS Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never ... ALBERT J. NOCK All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'... OSCAR WILDE Look,” said Roark evenly, and pointed at the window. “Can you see the campus and the town? Do yo... AYN RAND Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stra... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting WILLIAM RANDOLPH I assume I'm not (going to start), but you never know. Stranger things have happened. JASON SCHMIDT It is not going to be a stranger or some sinister person who offers it. It is going to be your best ... JOHN WALTERS Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedig... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I see no reason why we should see a break in this rise in the market. Valuations leave room for furt... BORIS BOEHM Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev... SAMUEL GOLDWYN Ben, why should anybody want that much power?" "Why does a moth fly toward light? ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? VALERIE BERTINELLI It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend;... SAMUEL JOHNSON I see why people think it should be held at Ebenezer. But one thing Mrs. King was about was change. ... LYNN COTHREN I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminate... DINAH SHORE Why not him? He does everything. JAMAL CRAWFORD Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. SOPHIE JORDAN Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. WERNER HEISENBERG The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. JOHN BURDON SANDERSON HALDANE I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick? CARSON MCCULLERS Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Engl... DIANA GABALDON If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? ERNESTINE ROSE Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Why should i cry?why should i loose hope?why should i not have faith,when i still believe there is s... BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not. SAIF ALI KHAN If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how . Man does no... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A dog with big names does not live to see many day. AIHEBHOLO-ORIA OKONOBOH Residents should not deal with residents. We have to live with each other. We have a management comp... BARBARA KATZ The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy. BIBLE Why should the rest of the people of Northern Ireland be held hostage by the IRA? Why should we not ... PETER ROBINSON America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do? SOURCE UNKNOWN But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for. JOHNATHAN SWIFT I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's ... DAVE WINER I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't see why we should go out there and settle for anything less. JOE SMITH We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua... SAINT BASIL You can see why they're in the Super Bowl. We could play with them for a long time but not long enou... DICK VERMEIL
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MICHAEL PHELPS I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong. MICHAEL PHELPS I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.... MICHAEL PHELPS I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and... MICHAEL PHELPS I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ... MICHAEL PHELPS The more you dream the more you achieve. MICHAEL PHELPS I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers. MICHAEL PHELPS Every sponsor I've had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality. MICHAEL PHELPS I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi... MICHAEL PHELPS People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to ... MICHAEL PHELPS I try to separate my personal life from swimming. MICHAEL PHELPS I'm a Dunkin' Donuts kind of guy. I also like Cadbury's. MICHAEL PHELPS I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. MICHAEL PHELPS If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. MICHAEL PHELPS I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wa... MICHAEL PHELPS Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ... MICHAEL PHELPS I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time... MICHAEL PHELPS I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at... MICHAEL PHELPS I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day. MICHAEL PHELPS To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented to... EDMUND PHELPS Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It'... MICHAEL PHELPS Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl... EDMUND PHELPS Are you living for the things you are praying for? AUSTIN PHELPS A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arra... EDMUND PHELPS Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and ... EDMUND PHELPS I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an ... MICHAEL PHELPS And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, y... MICHAEL PHELPS Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal an... EDMUND PHELPS We're pleased to put this behind us. This has been two years of turmoil and bullying by this union. CASSANDRA PHELPS The contract we agreed upon was not that different from the one that we've proposed all along. It's ... CASSANDRA PHELPS This was a hard decision but a stand we had to take to put an end to these continued strikes and thr... CASSANDRA PHELPS This is an example of this change and the fear that it puts in the hearts and minds of independent p... CASSANDRA PHELPS The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. EDWARD PHELPS My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with increm... EDMUND PHELPS America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few ... EDMUND PHELPS Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. EDMUND PHELPS