Top 100 Questioned Quotes
#1. If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies.
Irene Gut Opdyke
#2. I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.
Jonny Wilkinson
#3. Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.
Andy Andrews
#4. There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.
Rosie O'Donnell
#5. They would be happy to bring some up. No one bitched about the time. No one questioned. You can always tell how much you're paying for a room by how little they complain.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. No one ever told me that loving someone would feel like you were giving up every last part of yourself, but that's how I feel, Addison.
From the second I saw you, I was done. I gave it all to you. Something about you called to me, and I have never regretted you, even as I questioned us.
Ella Frank
#7. Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of the dog that's questioned but also the existance of the disability itself. And for these partnerships, some of the greatest problems arise.
Susannah Charleson
#8. He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.
David Platt
#10. I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
Thomas Hardy
#11. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois
#12. I've always questioned the so-called perfection of surfaces. If you looked close enough, there was always a flaw.
Amy Talkington
#13. Do you think me a bloody eunuch, wench?" he questioned harshly. "Cover yourself before I spill your virgin blood!
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#14. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
E.F. Schumacher
#15. Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. I have not asked for life.
But I try to accept whatever
life brings without surprise.
And I shall depart again without having
questioned anyone about my strange
stay here on earth.
Omar Khayyam
#17. There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
Thomas Aquinas
#18. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#19. It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.
Frederick Douglass
#20. At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind.
Lev Shestov
#22. The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
Mark Bradford
#23. The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.
Rudolf Bultmann
#24. At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
Howard Dean
#25. I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.
Steve Burns
#26. People were born and raised Democrats as they were born and raised Baptists or Catholics. It was not something you questioned. As one said, "You were a Democrat come hell or high water. Or you were a Republican." In
David McCullough
#27. Andy had to accept that the sword was missing. He thought back to where they had been, trying desperately to determine where he might have lost it. "Did you have it after we ate lunch?" Alden questioned at last. "Could it have fallen out of your backpack when you put it down?
L.R.W. Lee
#28. He said, 'Jasmine actually seemed like part of the band tonight.'" A smile twitched his lips. "Then he questioned his sanity.
Tara Kelly
#29. The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
Paul Broca
#30. Then why'd you do it?' I questioned in confusion. 'Why not?!' she answered enthusiastically.
Rebecca Donovan
#31. he questioned the wisdom of choosing a place where the windchill sucked his dick into his body and dried out his balls.
Skye Warren
#32. I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.
Orlan
#33. Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.
Azar Nafisi
#34. Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#35. Tell me, how do get away from your own self? she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.
Shannon A. Thompson
#36. I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world.
There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.
Oliver Sacks
#37. For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.
Mary Webb
#38. I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. My old black cat, he passed away this morning. He never knew what a heartache was. Woke up late and he danced till noon. If questioned why, answered just because. He never spoke much, preferring silence. Eight lost lives was all he had.
Ian Anderson
#40. Innocent tourists? You make me sound like the big bad wolf."
"And you're not?" I questioned.
"Only if you're Red Riding Hood," he said flirtatiously.
"Wow, that's original.
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#41. Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:
It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas Salk
#42. Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
Anthony De Mello
#43. I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
Henry Laurens
#44. I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.
Jo Nesbo
#45. I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
James Randi
#46. Whether epidemiology alone can, in strict logic, ever prove causality, even in this modern sense, may be questioned, but the same must also be said of laboratory experiments on animals. - Richard Doll
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#47. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
#48. People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
Jon Acuff
#49. We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!
Walter Wykes
#50. Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
Joan Kirner
#51. He questioned with jealousy as he spun her around the
Melody Anne
#52. Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
Yeardley Smith
#53. Let me get this straight. Whoever fights and wins gets to be in charge?" I questioned. "More or less." "Perfect. I challenge you all.
Eve Langlais
#54. No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.
Josip Broz Tito
#55. It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.
Daniel Ellsberg
#56. If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
Vera Nazarian
#57. He could have killed me for the blunder - which really wasn't my fault - but I was lucky , and he gave me another chance. The two officers who questioned him were also incredibly lucky for not having had any idea who it was they'd been questioning.
Floyd C. Forsberg
#58. I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home.
Mary Stott
#60. I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
David Wilkerson
#61. With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.
Helen Keller
#62. By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
Stephen Sondheim
#63. Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...
Vann Chow
#64. George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
Peter T. King
#65. After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type
Lena Dunham
#66. That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.
Edith Wharton
#67. When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
Vincent Canby
#68. The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.
Mat Collishaw
#69. And have you never questioned your faith? Never doubted or turned your back on Him?"
"No. I have not.
Robin LaFevers
#70. Emily wasn't used to having her knitting skills questioned. But
Katie Fforde
#71. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious - so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#72. I often get questioned about how we came up with the name 'Weebly.' We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.
David Rusenko
#73. Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
Chris Lilley
#74. At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.
Dalai Lama
#75. I denied Discordia and regret nothing; I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice; I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice.
Stephen King
#76. I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#77. She questioned my sexual preference in a highly offensive way, so my fist questioned the proximity of her face in an even more offensive way.
Kelly Oram
#78. Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.
George Orwell
#79. In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.
Eli Broad
#80. Perfection is a feeling; you'll know it if you've ever questioned the competency of your penmanship before writing on the first page of a new notebook.
Louise Gornall
#81. And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter. I was too happy to care.
Jessica Verday
#82. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
Warren Farrell
#83. Sometimes I think it must have been nice to be alive in the days where everyone knew that Faerie existed. Sure, bands of angry humans sometimes tried to kill us with iron and fire, but nobody questioned where we wanted to celebrate the seasons.
Seanan McGuire
#84. I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it ... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#85. After a while, many of the whites asked to be excused before Evelyn even asked them any questions. Most of them preferred to be excused rather than have their feelings toward Black people, Black militants, and Black Panthers questioned and explored.
Assata Shakur
#86. You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
Robert Vaughn
#87. [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
Blaise Pascal
#88. Tayla's eyes narrowed into slits, as if she questioned Gem's motives. "I'm not sure I trust you." "I don't trust you either," Gem shot back. "So where does that leave us?" "It leaves you in what's called a family, girls," Wraith drawled. "Get over it.
Larissa Ione
#89. Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.
Edward Albee
#90. For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.
Mark Rothko
#91. I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.
Temple Grandin
#92. Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.
Meredith Brooks
#93. I had never seen more clearly how streets like these were made for and by amoral cowards, men who made money in rubber or sugar or copper or steel in remote places then returned here where no one questioned their practices, their treatment of others, their greed.
Lily King
#94. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
Seth Godin
#97. To think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
Viktor E. Frankl
#98. His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.
Rio Ferdinand
#99. Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.
Eddie Huang
#100. A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.
Etty Hillesum
