Top 100 Don't Ask Question Quotes
#1. Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.
Frederick Weisel
#3. If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question.
T.A. Uner
#4. My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. "You don't know their situation," my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn't even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald's food turns into cold nonfood.
Tina Fey
#5. If you don't ask the right question, who will?
David Sturt
#6. I have to ask. Why do you like me?"
He shifted away from me then, his brows pulled together making him look even cuter, if that was possible. "I don't understand the question." His hands were squeezing mine tightly as he looked down at them. "You're my Lilly. You've always been my Lilly.
Amber L. Johnson
#7. Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don't ask so many questions.
Aman Jassal
#8. Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
Don DeLillo
#9. The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question.
Darryl Hurd
#10. I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Zadie Smith
#11. I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
Chris Matthews
#12. You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
Whittaker Chambers
#13. When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.
John Krasinski
#14. People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
Zach Braff
#15. If you don't want my answer, don't ask me the question.
Abby
#16. "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
#17. Don't stop walking with God to question Him, but ask Him questions as you walk with Him.
Hope D. Blackwell
#18. Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
Leo Buscaglia
#19. We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
Wendell Berry
#20. If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?
Gerald M. Weinberg
#22. Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
Harper Lee
#23. Sometimes I ask lots of people the same question." His head hurt. "What do you do if you don't get the same answer?" "Think about it.
Anne Bishop
#24. If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
Madison Davenport
#25. Tabitha checked her watch. It was almost ten.
"I don't know about you, but I'm famished. Want to go grab a bite?"
Valerius gave her an amused stare. "You have to be the only woman alive who would ask a man with fangs that question.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#26. Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.
Will Smith
#27. It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.
Shane Carruth
#28. Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.
John Tortorella
#29. Who are Bella and Edward?" I shrug off the question and don't turn around as I ask, "What?" "Or Mac and Jericho? How about Jamie and Claire?
Rachel Hollis
#30. You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
Philippa Foot
#31. I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is.
Francois Lelord
#32. Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!
Sheryl Sandberg
#33. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Edward Hodnett
#34. It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
Antoine Fuqua
#35. Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??...You are so quite, why?? You don't have answer, it's not a problem you don't need to answer I kwow it!
Deyth Banger
#36. Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
Lou Holtz
#37. I don't know whom shall I ask this question!
What is the rationality behind killing and murdering innocent people for the sake of your God?
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. 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
#39. We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.
Michael Spence
#40. Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
D.R. Silva
#41. I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.
Kai Greene
#42. 'Tell me about yourself.' When interviewers ask this, they don't want to hear about everything that has happened in your life; the interviewer's objective is to see how you respond to this vague yet personal question.
Travis Bradberry
#43. To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.
Suzy Kassem
#46. It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.
Don Lemon
#47. A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.
Ne-Yo
#48. I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.
Terry Bradshaw
#49. As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
Will Ferrell
#50. If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
Ani DiFranco
#51. But only when I hear those knocks
Accompanied by that question they all ask,
Curious about how you are,
Does realization dawn with a jolt,
You and I don't talk anymore.
Sreesha Divakaran
#52. 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
#53. You don't have to be very possessive to be too possessive in the very early stages of a relationship. If she says she can't see you on a particular date and you ask why, that's probably one question too many.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#54. Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problems is someone else.
Darlene Ouimet
#55. I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.
Haruki Murakami
#56. But when whites ask me The Question, it's just a reminder that I'm not like them, I don't look like them, which must mean I'm not from here.
Michele Serros
#57. I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question ... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tony Abbott
#58. I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.
Ben Horowitz
#59. That's the first question you ask when trapped in an elevator with a hungry carnivore?
I'm hungry too and could do with some eggs and bacon. But you don't have to worry about me attacking you. I expect the same courtesy.
Ella Frank
#60. The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask.
Stephen King
#61. I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#62. There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
Edward Albee
#63. When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'
Pope Francis
#64. Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't.
Nina George
#65. There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
Hideo Kojima
#66. One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
Alan Rickman
#67. 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
#68. If you don't know what to do with an answer, don't ask the question.
Elif Shafak
#69. I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
Dee Dee Myers
#70. Something else that her mind answer before the question ask. She know the answer. She can't help nobody out of white man power, not even herself. The woman eye still asking. Lilith don't know how to fix her eye to say no, so she look at the man and the same question come over him face.
Marlon James
#71. He said, "Al, that's the stupidest question you've ever asked in your life," but I don't reckon it was. I bet I ask way stupider questions that that every day.
J.L. Merrow
#72. 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
#73. Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.
Patrick Dempsey
#74. You don't start communities, he said. Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do. The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.
Jeff Jarvis
#75. Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
Nicholas Negroponte
#76. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers
Ed Parker
#77. 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
#78. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
Paul Dickson
#79. It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
#80. 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
#81. Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. If you don't want a sarcastic answer, don't ask a stupid question
Colleen Hoover
#83. If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
Geraldine Ferraro
#84. If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing
Arsene Wenger
#85. If you don't ask questions in school, the only question you should be prepared to ask is, "Would you like fries with that?
Paul Blair
#86. They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
Sarah Vaughan
#87. When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.
Connie Willis
#88. The first question we usually ask new parents is : "Is it a boy or a girl ?".
There is a great answer to that one going around : "We don't know ; it hasn't told us yet." Personally, I think no question containing "either/or" deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.
Kate Bornstein
#89. I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'.
Steven Wright
#90. Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.
- Rhett
Rowena Cherry
#91. I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they're asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, 'I don't know,' there's really no follow-up.
Derek Jeter
#92. The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.
Paul MacCready
#93. Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#94. When you're experiencing that year-in, year-out challenge of being on your own, it's easy to ask the question "What does everyone else know that I don't?" I suggest you flip that around.
Sara Eckel
#95. Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
Karen Joy Fowler
#96. If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
Tony Rothman
#97. I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.
Ronald Reagan
#98. It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.
Alexander Masters
#99. The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
Alan Rickman
#100. You ask me a question I'll give you an answer ... but don't look at me when I say something you don't want to hear.
Turcois Ominek
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