Begged The Question Quotes

#1. It just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?

Susannah Cahalan

#2. He'd been working for my father and following me around for I didn't know how long. He probably knew a lot of things about me. Probably even knew what kind of underwear I wore.
Which begged the question. Was he a boxer or brief kind of guy?

Devon Monk

#3. Puck laughed, and it wasn't like that weird high-pitched giggle she'd heard out of children before, the one that begged the question: why would one possibly tickle a child just to elicit that noise?

Kresley Cole

#4. In images, ... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

Dave Hickey

#5. No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

E.B. White

#6. I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Bill Callahan

#7. I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.

Sean Penn

#8. when you find the right one, you want him near you every moment of every day. And before you know it, you can't imagine your life without him.

Kristin Miller

#9. The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he could do these things.

Sol Luckman

#10. Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

Molly Ivins

#11. I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.

Steve Maraboli

#12. We were in a pit. Fitting. This was, after all, my hell. This pit around the lake. The lake that had taken so much. My friendship with Decker. My humanity. Quite nearly my life. And I was so angry with it. I wasn't scared anymore. I was furious.

Megan Miranda

#13. Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Luc De Clapiers

#14. Don't be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still have over an hour drive ahead of me.

-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain

Ashley Jade

#16. The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

Tacitus

#17. But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Dennis Kucinich

#18. Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays

Julian Barnes

#19. I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

King Hussein I