Top 100 Question Is Quotes
#1. To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.
Scott Watson
#2. Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Edward Felten
#4. A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
Isaac Asimov
#5. The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?
George W. Bush
#6. I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.
Greg Graffin
#7. The only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity.
Nathan Hill
#8. Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from expressing their views is no preparation for exercising those rights.
Crispin Sartwell
#10. To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.
Georg Cantor
#11. The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
Jeremy Bentham
#12. So," Frank said. "Your name isn't Sammy?"
Leo scowled. "What kind of question is that?"
"Nothing," Frank said quickly. "I just - Nothing.
Rick Riordan
#13. I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
Bertrand Russell
#14. When I'm ninety, I want you to tell me that it's my turn to ask you a question, and if that miracle happens, then my question is going to be, 'Do you still love me?' and I hope that answer will still be yes.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#15. The question is not what the writer meant, but what he conveyed to those who heard or read.
Clement Gatley
#16. A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.
Warren Berger
#17. I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
Wynton Marsalis
#18. Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
William Bolcom
#19. What form of speech is better than a question? A statement is certain. A question is fluid. To make progress, isn't it better to flow than to sit?
Edward W. Robertson
#20. Choice. - The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?
Jonathan Edwards
#21. I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Stephen Greenblatt
#22. If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015 ... The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?
Thoraya Obaid
#23. Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?
Charles Stross
#24. The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.
Satya Nadella
#25. Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
Stedman Graham
#26. Sometime in your life Allison Sekemoto you will kill a human being. The question is not if it will happen, but when. Do you understand? I didn't then, not really. I do now.
Julie Kagawa
#27. If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"
Paul Davies
#28. Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#29. Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind?
Laura Hanna
#30. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
#31. One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?
Roone Arledge
#32. EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
Ambrose Bierce
#33. The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
James C. Collins
#34. If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position
Nick Minchin
#35. It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.
Kelly Link
#36. You want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?"
"No," she whispered. "Question is, do I?
Meg Hennessy
#37. Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
Larry Winget
#38. There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#39. The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.
James Hansen
#40. The question is not when the boy will die, but how.
Jeremy Shory
#41. Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?
Sri Chinmoy
#42. Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?
Jonah Books
#43. We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.
Jostein Gaarder
#44. The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.
Henri Nouwen
#45. The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
Reid Hoffman
#46. The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.
Mao Zedong
#47. I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
Hamilton Jordan
#48. The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
Marlee Matlin
#49. He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever.
Anonymous
#50. We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.
Boyd K. Packer
#51. The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.
Abraham Foxman
#52. The question is
Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Melvin B. Tolson
#53. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
Henry Jenner
#54. Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?" This
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#55. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
Jodi Picoult
#56. The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
#57. If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you.
Autumn Doughton
#58. In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
Bill Gates
#59. The big question is: how do you institutionalize success and still keep that edge of craziness and wildeness?
Anita Roddick
#60. The universe isn't based on magic - there isn't one set of circumstances for the good and one for the evil. Everyone suffers sometime. The question is what you do with your suffering.
Sylvain Reynard
#61. There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.
Aime Cesaire
#62. Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking ... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
Edward De Bono
#63. The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.
Greg Van Eekhout
#64. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.
James S.A. Corey
#65. In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.
Rollo May
#66. To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
Raymond Queneau
#67. What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
Gayle Forman
#68. Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.
Mark Duplass
#69. Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
Confucius
#70. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original pitch idea is such a small part of a business that it's almost negligible. The real question is how well you execute.
Jason Fried
#71. The question to ask about education is not 'What can I do with it?' That is the wrong question because it concentrates on instrumental values and reduces everything to a useful art. The right question is rather 'What can it do to me?
Arthur F. Holmes
#72. Of course God already knows what I need. The question is - do I know?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#73. The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
Benjamin Disraeli
#74. The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#75. There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
David Levithan
#76. Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.
Ehab Atalla
#77. The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
Ron Fournier
#78. The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
David Whyte
#79. That was a rhetorical question! Don't you even know what a rhetorical question is?"
Miles didn't know whether to answer.
Jory John
#80. Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
Dave Barry
#81. Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?
Charles Stanley
#82. History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
Brad Meltzer
#83. Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Victor Hugo
#84. The question isn't whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.
Seth Godin
#85. Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?
Noam Chomsky
#86. The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
Karl Popper
#87. Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
Charles Dickens
#88. The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ...
Henri Bergson
#89. That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.
Cassandra Clare
#90. Though the real question is
whether or not I will make you immortal.
Margaret Atwood
#91. I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
Michael Ian Black
#92. The one thing every creator wants to do, without question, is leave a mark.
Jemir Robert Johnson
#93. A really big question is why the universe is fit for life; it looks like it has been 'fixed up'.
Paul Davies
#94. The real question is: how will YOU checkmate the market and win in your business? Focus on the endgame and work backwards from there.
Danny Flood
#95. The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?
Penelope Douglas
#96. Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?
Ernie J Zelinski
#97. We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
Leo Buscaglia
#98. So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.
John C. Calhoun
#99. All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
Ken Livingstone
#100. On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
Sam Ewing
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