Top 100 Ask A Question Quotes
#1. There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'
Bill Maher
#2. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
#3. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Ward Cunningham
#4. I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
Indira Gandhi
#5. That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.
Paulo Coelho
#6. The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack
Frank De Felitta
#7. I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.
Estelle
#8. The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
James Collins
#9. I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
Helen Thomas
#10. A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.
Ted Sizer
#11. May I ask a question, Lucy?"
"Go right ahead!"
"Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?"
"Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown ... You have to draw the line someplace!
Charles M. Schulz
#12. May I ask a question, doctor? Is she pining in this close place, too? When her sister comes, will her sister take her away?
Wilkie Collins
#13. I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.
Tobin Bell
#14. It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers.
Isobelle Carmody
#15. And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely.
Natsuo Kirino
#16. How you ask a question and what facts you include when asking your question often influences the answer. This is "framing" your question. There
Mike Cernovich
#17. Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.
Michael B. Jordan
#18. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb
Kevin E. Kruse
#19. She's also the kind of person who pretends to ask a question just to show off what she already knows.
Becky Albertalli
#20. The funny thing about the mind is that if you ask a question and then listen quietly, the answer usually appears.
Yongey Mingyur
#21. Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
David Mitchell
#22. Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.
- Rhett
Rowena Cherry
#23. Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
Austin Kleon
#24. We'll hurl satellites out into space, in order to find new and enthralling wonders - but we could simply turn to someone next to us, and ask a question about their life, instead.
Caitlin Moran
#25. You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable. Yes, Socrates; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all accustomed, I suppose.
Plato
#26. The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
Lee Child
#28. For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Samuel Goldwyn
#29. Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
Tim Berners-Lee
#30. I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.
Robin Quivers
#31. When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#33. When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that Latinos didn't want to speak Spanish. You would ask a question, only to be answered in English.
Raul De Molina
#34. I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
James Lipton
#35. "Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say something, to advertise something or to communicate it. Don't make a statement. Ask a question.
Frank Luntz
#36. Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share - he cannot help it - what he has found.
Madeleine L'Engle
#37. Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
Ursula Burns
#38. Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#39. Sure, ask a question, fire away, but remember, just because we answer doesn't mean we care. We all have our own problems, and mine are down in the cellar kicking up a fuss right now, must not have made the knots tight enough!!!
Neil Leckman
#40. You can generally count on a philosopher to ask a question about the question.
Kunal K. Das
#41. Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?
Ozzy Osbourne
#42. You shouldn't ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.
Eraldo Banovac
#43. Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.
Richard Saul Wurman
#44. He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
Kamisese Mara
#45. It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
Lemony Snicket
#46. Eventually, Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.
Patrick Rothfuss
#47. What makes you ask that?"
( ... ) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.
Cameron Dokey
#48. One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.
Christiana Miller
#49. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
Chuck Klosterman
#50. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#51. But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott
#52. I'd like to ask you a question, if I may."
"What?"
"All these poems you've written and hidden - so many poems. Why?"
While she thought, morning broke and the birds sang in the garden. "Because I could not stop.
Jeffrey Ford
#53. Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.
Carlos Castaneda
#54. Can I ask one more question?"
Cateline repressed a sigh. "One more. Then you need to eat your supper."
"If Davillon has so many gods, how come not one of them got off his butt and saved my mommy and daddy?!
Ari Marmell
#55. Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions
in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
to follow.
Kamila Shamsie
#56. Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.
Billy Graham
#57. If there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes
W. Clement Stone
#58. Let such a person rejoice even to ask the question, "What does this mean?" Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#59. People ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.
Jonah Goldberg
#60. If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.
John L. Casti
#61. I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?
Jennifer Ashley
#62. So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.
My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
Orson Scott Card
#63. Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Eric Hoffer
#64. I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Kim Ki-duk
#65. We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.
Matt Shea
#67. Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
John Ruskin
#68. And who is this General Calrissian? Thane decided not to ask that question out loud. If the Rebel Alliance was happy turning over its two most critical missions of all time to a bunch of brand-new generals, okay, fine -
Claudia Gray
#69. Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.
Dave Barry
#70. We become like what we worship. If you find yourself constantly bitter or angry, a good question to ask is, what god am I worshiping?
Josh Ross
#71. I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?
Frank Herbert
#72. What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.
Lindsey Graham
#73. I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan
#74. If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.
Kristin Richter
#75. One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.
Thomas Merton
#76. You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
Elizabeth May
#77. The important thing is to not assume that good is good enough, because even good things can always, always find a way to get better.
David Sturt
#78. If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#79. When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'
Jim Bankoff
#80. Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person.
Rob Brezsny
#81. So," Frosty said as we stood. "I have to ask a personal question, because our next move hinges on your answer."
I tensed, unsure about what he could possibly want to know. "Ask."
"How do you feel about stealing cars?
Gena Showalter
#82. As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"
Sharon Gannon
#83. The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?
Eckhart Tolle
#84. Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.
Al Gore
#85. The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once ... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.
Lester Wunderman
#86. 2.6 billion people live without toilets, and 1.6 billion without electricity. How is this possible?, you might ask. And that is a very good question.
Neale Donald Walsch
#87. What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?
Mike Wallace
#88. A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone who will maintain company culture or reinvent it?
Ryan Holmes
#89. If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
Geraldine Ferraro
#90. These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.
Tom Hodgkinson
#91. You don't know what year it is?"
"Kind of a dull question to ask someone if I did, isn't it?
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#92. A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
David Duchovny
#93. As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?
Leroy Cronin
#94. Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.
Plato
#95. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
Ravi Howard
#96. You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
Ken Leung
#97. Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?"
The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol."
"But do you see what it means?
Patricia Highsmith
#98. If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
Peter Welch
#99. A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.
Ted Cruz
#100. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She
Jonathan Odell
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