Question Quotes

• Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Question

• I seriously wished-selfish as it may appear-that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Society
  • Selfish

• As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question
  • Nonviolence
  • Common Law

• People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Fear
  • Question

• Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Up
  • Question

• Where did he get jelly beans? That's another good question. More than likely it will never be answered to your complete satisfaction. But then, how many questions ever are?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Good
  • Question

• I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

  

  Pink
  • Up
  • God
  • Question

• 'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Question
  • Gay
  • Tears

• Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • May
  • Question

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Question

• With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • God
  • Mind

• I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mystery

• I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

  

  Pattie Maes
  • May
  • Help
  • Decision

• [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Award
  • Promote
  • Condemnation

• For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Question

• I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

  

  Bert Lance
  • Success
  • Boy
  • Goals

• We don't see this as a question of whether. We see it as a question of when.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Question
  • See

• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  

  Max Planck
  • Great
  • Science
  • Question

• There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Question

• Fools make researches and wise men exploit them-that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Wise

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