Question Quotes

• Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Trust
  • Admission
  • Trust me

• It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • Reflection
  • Observation

• John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

  

  Andre Previn
  • Good
  • Question

• Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Moments

• I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Eyes
  • Violence
  • Choose

• Is there life before death? - that is the question!

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life
  • Death
  • Question

• If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

  

  James Martineau
  • God
  • Men
  • Future

• Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Hero
  • Lavinia

• It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Question
  • Government
  • Simple

• I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Good
  • Question

• There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Question

• In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Different
  • Single
  • Animal

• Lloyd George told me he did not see how we could get successfully through this war...'It is clear that that damn fool Neville Chamberlain never gave a thought to that question - whether we would win - when he declared war. I am not against war, but I am against war when we have no chance of winning.'

  

  David Lloyd George
  • War
  • Winning
  • Fool

• You don't question magic.

  

  Future
  • Question
  • Magic

• Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'T was one of my most intimate enemies.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Friend
  • Wise
  • Lies

• I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.

  

  Larry King
  • Know
  • Questions
  • Short

• 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

• I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Question

• The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

  

  Donald Johanson
  • People
  • Why
  • Today

• The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work
  • Question

• I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

  

  John Bright
  • Women
  • May
  • Hope

• That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Gay
  • Characters
  • Lesbian

• I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn't do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Alone
  • Question

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