Question Quotes

• We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Question

• Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Time
  • Question

• Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Evil

• In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Better
  • Doing

• 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Political
  • Beginning
  • Weird

• Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Question
  • Single
  • Principle

• People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Question
  • Merchandise

• For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sins
  • Welfare
  • Thief

• I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

  

  Phil Klay
  • War
  • Question
  • Confused

• I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Think
  • Feelings
  • Media

• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • Believe
  • Question
  • Sports

• When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

  

  Alan Paton
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Judge

• You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• The Outsider cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else's necessary. He sees 'too deep and too much'. It is still a question of self-expression.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Question
  • Deep

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

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Question

• It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

  

  David Gower
  • Up
  • Question
  • Responsibility

• Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Internet

• We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

  

  James F. Amos
  • Time
  • Country
  • Home

• Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Question

• There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Political
  • Question

• I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Country
  • American
  • Help

• The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Why
  • Age
  • Driving

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