Question Quotes
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I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks
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This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
Ann Reed
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.
Josh Mandel
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When survival was in question, you fought hard and you seized every advantage, because your enemy was sure to do the same.
Brandon Mull
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I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!
Bill Geist
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Victor Hugo
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At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.
Tim Ferriss
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Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.
Carol Leifer
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He wanted to ask her how many men had fallen in love with her. But she wasn’t the kind of woman who let you ask that question.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It's one of the big mysteries about Venus: How did it get so different from Earth when it seems likely to have started so similarly? The question becomes richer when you consider astrobiology, the possibility that Venus and Earth were very similar during the time of the origin of life on Earth.
David Grinspoon
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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You've got to tell the truth, ... And if you don't tell the truth, then everything else you say goes into question.
Chris Shays
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?
Elisabeth Elliot
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I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.
Elaine Equi
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I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.
John Ashcroft
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
Francis Bacon
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Euripides
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When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Jorge Ramos
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No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions.
Assem Allam
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'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.
Anzia Yezierska
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I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...
Beth Kephart