Question Quotes

• A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Question
  • Idea

• It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.

  

  Daniel James Brown
  • Question
  • Pain
  • Wanton

• I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Question

• For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• The fundamental question I believe is, 'Is political Islam in our best interest?' If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

  

  James Mattis
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Support

• In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Question

• It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Control
  • Angry
  • Habit

• Dr. Bob managed so successfully to turn the answer to every question into a mini-lecture on self-esteem and positive thinking, that Ethan wanted Hazard to arrest him on charges of Felony Cliché and Practicing Philosophy Without An Idea.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Positive

• They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Question

• I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Money
  • Power
  • Opportunity

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

  

  Iain Banks
  • Question

• I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

  

  E. B. White
  • Good
  • May
  • Book

• Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Next
  • Cases
  • Fundamentals

• It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Time
  • Question
  • Period

• Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Question

• I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Question

• It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • Power
  • Small
  • Question

• As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Death
  • Political

• Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Irrelevant
  • Pertinent
  • Impertinent

• I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

  

  Louis Leakey
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Present

• You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Question
  • Ask
  • Yacht

• This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Question
  • Sunday

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