Questions Quotes
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
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If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
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The dilemma in U.S. culture is that we don’t really distinguish what I am defining as Humble Inquiry carefully enough from leading questions, rhetorical questions, embarrassing questions, or statements in the form of questions—such as journalists seem to love— which are deliberately provocative and intended to put you down.
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When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
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If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate - I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it's not on a geopolitical level.
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I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.
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I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them, but I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people are going to know who will fight for them, who will be there when they need them, and that's the kind of person I am and that's what I will do, not only in a campaign but as president.
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If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
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Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.
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The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
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The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
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It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?
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Religion is born out of questions, not answers.
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It's a nightmare, ... Your Tax Questions Answered.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
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The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.
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The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.
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I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
