Questions Not Quotes

#1. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

#2. The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

Dean Wareham

#3. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#4. I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Harri Holkeri

#5. I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

Richard Gere

#6. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#7. The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

Greg Zoeller

#8. I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.

George W. Bush

#9. We're not doing one of those things where you need me to ask you a bunch of questions so you can get comfortable talking about your feelings, are we?" Alex laughed. "That never works." "So let's not do it." On

James S.A. Corey

#10. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#11. What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.

Keith Ferrazzi

#12. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

Immanuel Kant

#13. These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

Steven Pressfield

#14. There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

Linus Pauling

#15. Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

David Dark

#16. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.

John Boyne

#17. I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

Mitt Romney

#18. What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Walter Lippmann

#21. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Ed Parker

#22. There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

Marie Osmond

#23. We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

Max De Pree

#24. I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

Alex Garland

#25. Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.

Kirsten Dunst

#26. Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.

Steven Weinberg

#27. As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

John Barrasso

#28. Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.

Paulo Coelho

#29. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

Bill Buxton

#31. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Oscar Wilde

#32. Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume
an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

John Dewey

#33. We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#34. Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Arthur Miller

#35. Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

William Thorsell

#36. I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

Monica Lewinsky

#37. I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Elena Kagan

#38. First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at
telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.

Allen Verhey

#39. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?

Emalynne Wilder

#40. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.

Anthony Doerr

#41. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

#42. I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

Jonathan Nolan

#43. But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea.

Soseki Natsume

#44. It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

Shane Koyczan

#45. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.

J.R. Rim

#46. I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

Steve Harvey

#47. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#48. Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#49. I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

John Green

#50. Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

Albert Einstein

#51. Most of the people I've encountered are looking not for a religion to answer all their questions but for a community of faith in which they can feel safe asking them.

Rachel Held Evans

#52. I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

Gil Scott-Heron

#53. The more I thought about it the more questions I had. And not only about my cousins, but about St. Ailbe's. And those wolf-dog things. And that guy. Mostly about that guy.

Aileen Erin

#54. Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles,

Carly Fiorina

#55. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

Ulrich Beck

#56. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

Prince William

#57. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.

G.A. Aiken

#58. The effective evangelist must engage not only at the level of the answers, but also at the level of the questions themselves.13

Russell D. Moore

#59. I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michel De Montaigne

#60. That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Marni Bates

#61. I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.

Trey Gowdy

#62. I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

Uwem Akpan

#63. Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

John Montgomery Ward

#64. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

Brad Pitt

#65. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

Nora Roberts

#66. It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Brandon Thomas

#67. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

Henri Nouwen

#68. What if she figures out you're not very smart?

Billy Joel

#69. 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

#70. Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions ... as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Jacqueline Winspear

#71. My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Alejandro Amenabar

#72. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#73. But I wondered sometimes, the way your mind asks those big questions, like whether or not there's a god or how a girl can think she's ugly one day and pretty the next.

Julie Murphy

#74. I can guarantee that a hundred questions will not find my soul mate. I know this because he's dead.

Rachel Spanswick

#75. Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.

Dalai Lama XIV

#76. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

Ray Stannard Baker

#77. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#78. I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

Aaron Patzer

#79. Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

David Hume

#80. Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society - and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society - is not art.

Joseph Beuys

#81. His accent was deep Louisiana, which meant half the time he wasn't coherent and the other half he was bitching at them for not answering his questions.

Abigail Roux

#82. It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.

Harold B. Lee

#83. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.

Douglas Wood

#84. Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Hans Morgenthau

#85. [My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?

Amy Sutherland

#86. Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

Fred Ritchin

#87. It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty.

Rashmit Kalra

#88. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Anna Agoncillo

#89. Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don't have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

Rob Bell

#90. Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they're just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

Zia Haider Rahman

#91. But that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person.

Jonathan Tropper

#92. What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?

Patricia Highsmith

#93. Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Flann O'Brien

#94. I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Jason Reitman

#95. Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

Steven Novella

#96. By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

George Santayana

#97. We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

Paulo Coelho

#98. A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Hilary Mantel

#99. You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

Lena Dunham

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

Helen Suzman