Question Quotes

• Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Business

• I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Want
  • You
  • Safe

• The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Question

• As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

  

  James Boswell
  • Service
  • Animals
  • Kinds

• If you're advertising on Facebook, the work you're doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can't just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that's very primitive. The question, always, is, 'How is this idea made better by this medium?'

  

  David Droga
  • Work
  • Question

• a question i have for whoever runs these sites-where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!

  

  Emma Caulfield
  • Question

• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I get that question almost more than any other. Once people feel a little comfortable, they're always like, 'So, what, uh, uh, what, um, what's your ethnicity?'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Question

• I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • True
  • Question

• It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • People
  • Children
  • Black

• There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

  

  Brent Spiner
  • People
  • Business
  • Wish

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Information

• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • Work
  • Question

• For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Question
  • Survival
  • Empathy

• People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Doubt

• The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Time
  • Question
  • Italian

• The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.

  

  Georgia Byng
  • Life
  • Happens
  • Unified

• Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Learning
  • Curiosity
  • Student

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Attention
  • Television
  • Down

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Facts
  • Calm

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