Question Quotes

• To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Dream

• When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Respect
  • Question

• Our people had been so long accustomed to the practice and convenience of having slaves, that very few among them even doubted the propriety and rectitude of it. Some liberal and conscientious men had indeed, by their conduct and writings, drawn the lawfulness of slavery into question.

  

  John Jay
  • People
  • Men
  • Long

• 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

• There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Up
  • Question

• The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and 'it depends' is almost always the right answer in any big question.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Question

• The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

  

  Edward Felten
  • Question

• It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times when people think "What happened to the Judith Butler I used to know?" or "She's not doing gender trouble. Does that mean she refuses it or she's disavowed it?" And I would say no. I have not refused or disavowed anything.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Question
  • Refused
  • Gender Trouble

• I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Air

• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  

  Anne Perry
  • Great
  • Believe
  • War

• The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Question
  • Mischief

• There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

  

  Bill Maher
  • Today
  • House
  • Color

• Question: Do you think that there is only one Perfect Master?

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Perfect
  • Question

• The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

  

  Ayshay
  • America
  • Question
  • Kuwait

• It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Question

• The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • People
  • Country
  • Wish

• Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Question
  • Human Beings

• At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

  

  Eric Idle
  • Good
  • America
  • Freedom

• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Help
  • Stop

• You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• who should give a clear answer to the question of whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Iraq

• Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Survival

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