Embarrassing Questions Quotes

#1. I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

Charles Kuralt

#2. There aren't any embarrassing questions - just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

#3. Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

Yao Ming

#4. On working with other writers: You develop honesty and you can then ask the really embarrassing questions. I have learned so many things I didn't want to know, and they were all a result of interesting interviews for background information.

Dan Alatorre

#5. There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Carl T. Rowan

#6. There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

Victor Hugo

#7. Our job now, those of us simply observing today, shocked by this awful news, our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another, and to meet one another in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#8. Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

#9. Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Joe Jonas

#10. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job,

J.K. Simmons

#11. It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

Mircea Eliade

#12. When you have writer friends, you have to ask each other awkward questions all the time. It's beyond embarrassing but they get it.

Dan Alatorre

#13. A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

Jim Butcher

#14. We are a passionate family that believes in standing up strongly for what is right, even when there is a cost. We live our lives around our Church and our faith, placing special emphasis on maximizing our involvement in our children's lives, and nurturing family-like relationships with our friends.

Patrick Lencioni

#15. True love has nothing to do with physical contacts. True love is bound with the souls of two lovers. There are no meetings or partings when two hearts are beating in love. The distance between them fades away and what remains is the nearness of the souls.

Farzana Zahid

#16. Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#17. My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

Matt Ridley

#19. It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

Helen Suzman

#20. I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future can use then I don't feel like we've served our purpose on this earth in an effective manner.

Jerome Ringo

#21. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

Jo Goodman