Top 100 Good Question Quotes
#1. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
Amish Tripathi
#2. Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
Guy Kawasaki
#3. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Stanley Cavell
#4. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
Alan Blinder
#5. Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe.
Joan Didion
#6. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?
Richard Dawkins
#7. You pronounced your words as if you don't acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?
Mikhail Bulgakov
#8. I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.
Michael Dougherty
#9. Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
Dick Schaap
#10. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.
Rene Russo
#11. But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass
#12. 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
#13. A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night ... every day.
Ajahn Chah
#14. You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.
Matthew Norman
#15. We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we'll either sink or swim. I'm a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath?
Melissa Foster
#16. We may state the question thus: - Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly. Is there anything more? No, there is nothing else. But
Plato
#17. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.
Paul A. Kaufman
#18. Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
Jean Fritz
#20. Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
Elsie De Wolfe
#22. If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
Laurie Helgoe
#23. Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.
Paul Monette
#24. I don't understand," Holden said. "If you didn't do this, then who did?"
"See now, that's a good question, on several levels. Depending on what you mean by 'this.
James S.A. Corey
#25. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.
Paul Tudor Jones
#26. I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.
Buddy Hackett
#27. I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.
Ravi Zacharias
#28. Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#29. She had to be brave enough to reveal the little girl inside who wondered the scariest question of all.
Am I good enough?
Jennifer Kacey
#30. A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend.
E.L. Konigsburg
#31. Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.."
Stephanie," he took both my hands, "how could you do any worse?"
Best rhetorical question ever.
Stephanie Klein
#32. We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
Peter Drucker
#33. While good work, crucial as it is, sets our attention on execution and delivery, great work sets our attention on benefiting others.
David Sturt
#34. How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Lytton Strachey
#35. The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Ellen Key
#36. 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.
#37. If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
Bob Schieffer
#38. You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
Emma Watson
#39. There is no question that the Four Spiritual Laws have been remarkably fruitful as a way of evangelism, but they are not good for everyone.
Os Guinness
#41. Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.
James Altucher
#43. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#44. With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
Chevy Chase
#45. Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Sydney Pollack
#46. The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors?
Steven Johnson
#47. It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#48. 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
#49. The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
Walter Bagehot
#50. The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
Peter Thiel
#51. If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.
Missy Mazzoli
#52. You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life
Tariq Ramadan
#53. That question is too good to spoil with an answer.
Harry Mulisch
#54. A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, "If I do this, am I going to die?" If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you.
Darren Hardy
#55. Alrighty then. Hell of a reunion," Breccan said, separating Gage and Darius. "So, a welcome hug is outta the question. Good to know.
Madison Thorne Grey
#56. John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
Andre Previn
#57. Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
Jasper Fforde
#58. Cassandra Gregory?" I say, not able to keep the question out of my voice. "I'm Grace, your
"
The door slams in my face before I can finish.
"
daughter."
Well this is not a good start to our reunion.
Tera Lynn Childs
#59. Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
James Turrell
#60. The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
Franz Liszt
#61. We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick Hornby
#62. She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#63. The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
Sigmar Gabriel
#64. Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
Robert Jordan
#65. Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we might ask - the very question that betrays our misplaced assumption that we somehow deserve a good life.
Tim Chaddick
#66. Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.
Claire Messud
#67. Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.
Shelley Moore Capito
#68. We will never find a "good" solution to the question of abortion. What we need to do is to back away from the idea that there is an ideological "fix" to every problem. Then again, that's just one opinion. And I could be wrong. I often am.
Frank Schaeffer
#69. That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Arthur Miller
#70. At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
Whittaker Chambers
#71. Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.
Charles Le Gai Eaton
#72. A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
Donald Norman
#73. The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'
Greg Smith
#75. I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
Abraham Lincoln
#76. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
Laurell K. Hamilton
#77. Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
Twyla Tharp
#78. I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
Chiang Kai-shek
#80. How about," Jane suggested, "some dumb question as to what a refinery does?" "Good idea," fired back Col. "What does a refinery do?" Connie asked. Anneena and Col groaned.
Julia Golding
#81. So what's the verdict?" Kayla asked. "Can I act, or am I just a bimbo who got hired because I look good
in lingerie?"
"Is that a trick question?" Sean grinned. "Because I'm pretty sure you look good in lingerie.
Alison Packard
#82. Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
Malcolm Gladwell
#83. If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.
Charlie Cox
#84. There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#85. We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?
Boethius
#86. If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp
#87. Change is always a question; they that find good and pragmatic answers to it cause true change that make real impact
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]
Dani Shapiro
#89. Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.
Anuj
#91. Why the book 11.29.69 was written? (Very good question) - it was written because Stephen King was inspired about what will happen if it can be changed???
Deyth Banger
#92. With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the United States. And what I hope every company will do going forward when it comes to the ads they show and the food they sell they're asking themselves one simple question: Is this good for our kids?
Michelle Obama
#93. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.
Aline Ohanesian
#94. 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
#95. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.
Carew Papritz
#96. You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
Daniel Dennett
#97. My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
K'naan
#98. Never question your life or its purpose. You were created for a reason. Make it a good one. Never add to the destruction of the world.
Krystal Volney
#99. The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity - and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard P. Feynman
#100. Melanthe eyed him. "If all the good immortals still have their collars, why don't you?" "The better question: How could you possibly have retained yours?
Kresley Cole
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