Question Time Quotes

#1. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.

Rodney Gage

#2. But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Ronnie Barker

#3. I watched Question Time on BBC1 last night and I've come to the conclusion this country needs more unemployed politicians.

Kirkland Ciccone

#4. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss

#5. We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.

Harper Lee

#6. You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

M.J. Rose

#7. Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Brian Tracy

#8. I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

Francine Rivers

#9. This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

Michael W. Smith

#10. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

#11. 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

#12. it's not a question but a lesson learned in time

Don W. Green

#13. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#14. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.

William Shakespeare

#15. 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

#16. Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is what?

Iimani David

#17. I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

Isaac Asimov

#18. I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#19. We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own

Arlene Lagos

#20. We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,' ... With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for.

Rick McCallum

#21. The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.

Mario Cuomo

#22. There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

Bob Riley

#23. People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

Jon Runyan

#24. 1. What do you want to accomplish in your life? 2. What is important to you? 3. Where do you want to live? Make sure to consider your response to question 2 when answering this one. 4. How do you want to spend your time?

Liisa Vexler

#25. It's love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#26. Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

William Zinsser

#27. Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?

Henry Dunant

#28. The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

Daniel Kahneman

#29. 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

#30. Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.

Brandon Sanderson

#31. I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

Lisa Cholodenko

#32. we members of one of its final generations should devote some time to answering one last question:

Yuval Noah Harari

#33. But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

Hans Kung

#34. Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

Tariq Ramadan

#35. This realization leads to a different question than that suggested by all these tips on simplifying the holidays. Namely, what are you saving your energy for? This is all there is. Anything could happen and you are not guaranteed another snowman. So make a fuss. Make a show. Spend your energy now.

Laura Vanderkam

#36. There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?)

Deyth Banger

#37. People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question ... I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet!

C.K. Webb

#38. I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.

Jennifer Brown

#39. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Bill Bryson

#40. Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

Kurt Hahn

#41. Failing once in awhile is inevitable. The question is which way are we falling most of the time. Are we falling Backward or Forward, Downward or Forward?

Assegid Habtewold

#42. My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time

Haruki Murakami

#43. My favourite all time quote is from Eileen Gray, the subject of my new book The Interview. She believed, 'to create one must first question everything'. A concept that applies to writing as to life

Eileen Gray

#44. It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

Jeff Sessions

#45. It's a primary law of this world that the old rule the young, that one must serve mine's time. It is no question of ability. Else what would become of the old dodderers who cling to power?

Erich Maria Remarque

#46. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

Dan Pearce

#47. When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

Doug Wilson

#48. I had sex," I blurt out for the second time.
All eyes immediately fixate on Connor, who has been very quiet. His phone is gone and his hands are in his pockets. "Yes, it was with me," he answers the non-existent question.

Krista Ritchie

#49. 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

#50. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#51. Cheri was in one of her moods again - probably another fight with meathead Miles. Eric swore she secretly hated her husband, but the one time Eric dared question her feelings, she had flown off the handle

Ania Ahlborn

#52. Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

Timothy Ferriss

#53. 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

#54. The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. So, say that final belief
Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Wallace Stevens

#55. quitting, gives you even more time to ponder. But perhaps I wanted time to stop. Maybe I was meant to lie here on my back in the desert to question why I was running through an oven. Why was I subjecting myself to this torture? I started running for reasons I had

Scott Jurek

#56. It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Watts

#57. When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

Bertrand Russell

#58. Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

Nutan Bajracharya

#59. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

Tom Robbins

#60. I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Neil Turok

#61. America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.

Jean Baudrillard

#62. By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

Albert Maltz

#63. You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

George Karl

#64. You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to ... If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.

Warren Sapp

#65. I really look for asking myself that question, "Oh my God, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to every time I take on a new role.

Emily Blunt

#66. Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Nuruddin Farah

#67. 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

#68. Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

Oliver Sykes

#69. You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Birch Bayh

#70. Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

Prashant Chopra

#71. Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.

Jacqueline Winspear

#72. Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.

Thomas Hardy

#73. I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

Charles Dance

#74. Any time he'd asked that question of a D.C. native, they looked at him like he had two heads and said that's the way they'd always done it. Still, didn't they get that it was confusing to out-of-towners?

Marie Force

#75. The answer to the question What really works? is simple: Nothing really works, at least not all the time. That's not the nature of the business world. But that insight, however accurate, isn't of much comfort. Management

Philip M. Rosenzweig

#76. Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing.

Sharon Horgan

#77. The key question of our time is learning how to respond in love when people don't agree, without compromising our view.

Christy McFerren

#78. At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

Joseph Stalin

#79. My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J.M. Coetzee

#80. Do we really fall in love repeatedly and feel it real every time, or we just pose the duplication of our first and foremost love we have ever experienced?
The question remains yet again, who is the beloved?

M.F. Moonzajer

#81. Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to do with my evenings has been all fixed up for me.

Dorothy Parker

#82. I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Cobi Jones

#83. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Frank W. Putnam

#84. Why?"
He sauntered towards her. "Why, what?"
"Why are you here?"
He sighed. "Well, I think everyone goes through a time in their lives when they ask that same question. It's brave of you to finally step outside of yourself and-

Rachel Van Dyken

#85. The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

Martin Amis

#86. I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.

Dan Ariely

#87. Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Arthur Koestler

#88. For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.

B.P. Gregory

#89. I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?

Pat Robertson

#90. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?

Kacey Vanderkarr

#91. Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

Richard Gere

#92. And if you don't find what you're looking for?"
At Roy's question Addie looked up.
"Then all I've lost is time.

Jodi Picoult

#93. T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#94. My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

Margaret Atwood

#95. There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Linda Ronstadt

#96. Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.

Christina Aguilera

#97. 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

#98. Change the world one "what-about-socialization" question at a time, my friend.

Jamerrill Stewart

#99. They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#100. And who is this General Calrissian? Thane decided not to ask that question out loud. If the Rebel Alliance was happy turning over its two most critical missions of all time to a bunch of brand-new generals, okay, fine -

Claudia Gray