Top 1200 Why Bother Quotes & Sayings

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

Charley: If you‘re not going to tell me where you are, if you‘re not going to trust me to help you, then why are you here? Why bother? Reyes: Because you‘re the reason I breathe.

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

My dad finds Twitter just infinitely unrelatable. He's like, 'Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it's private?!' And I'm like, 'Why would you even have a snack if you didn't tell anybody? Why bother eating?'

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it.

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?

To change, to convert? Why bother?

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Personally I don't understand why the metal press even bother, but I guess it is good they do.

How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.