Top 100 Quotes About Asking The Question
#1. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?
Abhijit Naskar
#2. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Tony Goldwyn
#3. Why did I even try then? Of course, in asking the question, I'd already known the answer; faith. I hoped; I couldn't help it.
J.M. Northup
#4. I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you're not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.
Tom Morello
#5. Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
C. Wright Mills
#6. Asking the question matters more than finding the answer.
Mark Beauregard
#7. In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl R. Rogers
#8. As I have said, in the same way that you can tell if some sexism is happening to you by asking the question "Is this polite, or not?" you can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, "And are the men doing this, as well?
Caitlin Moran
#9. When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When
Ethan Nichtern
#10. We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#11. This is the way I've always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away.
Jael McHenry
#12. The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.
Bill Maher
#13. A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
Irving Layton
#14. There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?'
Michael Mullen
#15. Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.
John Fairclough
#16. Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point ... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
Darrell Issa
#17. Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
K.A. Applegate
#19. Asking the question you have already now just to see if the person will LIE.
Margaret Watson
#20. By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
Alastair Campbell
#21. I am a secret. That is all I will ever be. Everyone in this kingdom is asking the question of the reason behind your delay in taking a wife and that is dangerous for me. - Sari
Ray Anyasi
#22. If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'
Mardy Grothe
#23. New Rule: 12 years after 9/11 and admits yet another debate whether to bomb yet another Muslim country. America must stop asking the question: Why do they hate us?
Bill Maher
#24. During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?
Molly Friedenfeld
#25. Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
Joseph Campbell
#26. By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.
Robert Kiyosaki
#27. No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
Michael Moore
#28. I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
Shane Claiborne
#29. I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.
Dionne Warwick
#30. Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?
Madonna Ciccone
#31. Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?
Esther Perel
#32. Hesse's Journey to the East (1951) in the fifties anticipated the occult revival of the late sixties. But who will interpret for us the amazing success of Rosemary's Baby and 2001? I am merely asking the question.
Mircea Eliade
#33. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.
Jojo Moyes
#34. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.
Andy Weir
#35. Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'
Shailene Woodley
#36. On the question - which is more important for a story-plot or character. "It's a bit like asking whether your need your left or right leg. Maybe you have a preference, maybe one is stronger (for you) but really, you need both." (on Facebook)
Jeanette O'Hagan
#37. When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
#38. You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
Chuck Klosterman
#39. Asking big "WHY" question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
Pearl Zhu
#40. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#41. What's your favorite color?" he whispered against my skin as though he were asking a highly intimate question. "Blue." "Like the ocean or the sky?" "Like your eyes." He turned me
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#42. It is the beautiful thing about the Solati avoidance of asking straight question; it is easy to ignore them.
Kelly St. Clare
#43. The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Florynce Kennedy
#45. I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.
Michael Buble
#46. What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?
Ruta Sepetys
#47. The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.
Eleanor Brown
#48. Something else that her mind answer before the question ask. She know the answer. She can't help nobody out of white man power, not even herself. The woman eye still asking. Lilith don't know how to fix her eye to say no, so she look at the man and the same question come over him face.
Marlon James
#49. 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
#50. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
#51. Effective management always means asking the right question.
Robert Heller
#52. So you love her still?" She found herself asking.
"Who?"
"The vampire. Shamiya."
His hand squeezed her calf in gentle reproof."A silly question, cher. You know love cannot survive where there is no light.
Nalini Singh
#53. The fact that you wish to become extremely
successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such.
Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is
what do you need to become?
Chris Murray
#54. Such questions as "Why this universe?" are a kind of intellectual neurosis, a
misuse of words in that the question sounds sensible but is actually as
meaningless as asking "Where is this universe?
Alan W. Watts
#55. You're clumsy. But it can't be helped. You are who you are.
It feels like the answer to a question I feared asking, like I've been searching every galaxy for this message.
You are who you are.
Ann Aguirre
#56. How was church today?" In most times and places of the church, this would have been an unlikely question. In fact, the hearer might have been confused. Why? Because it's like asking how the meals at home have been this week
Michael S. Horton
#57. It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Lauren Kate
#58. Possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question
simple curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose
Oscar Wilde
#59. A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#60. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.
Lionel Suggs
#61. Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.
E.B. White
#62. The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'
Meir Soloveichik
#63. I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#64. I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.
Rex Stout
#65. When you are the answer that must remain hidden, then you have everything to be worried about when so much people are asking the same question. - Sari
Ray Anyasi
#66. Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.
Arthur Koestler
#67. Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite question ... 'Is it a crime to be weak?
Naoyuki Ochiai
#68. Jesus never asked a question because HE needed to know the answer.
Christopher Bozung
#69. If Darla's question was Why do people take pictures?, then what sort of answer was that? Or were pictures like that why Darla was asking in the first place?
I say to the empty room, "I take pictures because sometimes I can't find the words to say what I want to say.
A.S. King
#70. As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#71. How is it that you're such an expert on home pregnancy kits?"
You're asking that question of an Italian stallion like myself? The women call me 'sperm of thunder'. I don't dare stand too close for fear I may impregnate them with just a whiff of my manhood.
Jill Smolinski
#72. 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
#73. Why did it have to happen?'It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask.
Kurt Vonnegut
#74. The koans in the Blue Cliff Record do their best to introduce people to their true natures. One of them (number 27 out of 100) quotes a monk asking the master Yun Men, "How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" There are many ways to interpret the question, of course.
Mark Epstein
#75. When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."
Charles Caleb Colton
#76. For a long time ... I've been asking myself this question ... Am I a memory? Are you ... a memory? Are we just ... a collection of memories? I've always been waiting ... for the person who disappeared beyond those rails. Now I understand. It didn't end here. This place ... was just the beginning.
Yuuki Obata
#77. 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
#78. For every question, there is an answer.
Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.
Richard Diaz
#79. To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
Al Franken
#80. I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.
Ken Jeong
#81. Firing the question back is a way of sifting through our memories to pick up clues about what the questioner is asking. We understand the question okay, but we can't answer it until we fish out the right "memory picture" in our heads.
Naoki Higashida
#82. As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assaults, we are playing right into the hands of those who silence victims by asking: "who would believe you anyways?".
Laura Bates
#83. Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.
Adam Levin
#84. Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'
Margaret J. Wheatley
#85. The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. How you ask a question and what facts you include when asking your question often influences the answer. This is "framing" your question. There
Mike Cernovich
#87. Had the water done something? Did it do something to me? She wondered. Do I look different? Then she remembered asking herself that question before, two days ago. How could you even tell, the way things kept happening to you, maybe leaving their marks in ways you couldn't even see.
Megan Abbott
#88. Most people are accusing God, asking, "How can you punish sinners? How can you let good people go to hell?" But the question the Bible asks is exactly the opposite: "God, how can you be just and still let guilty sinners into heaven?" And the only answer to that question is Jesus Christ.
David Platt
#89. People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
Ysabeau S. Wilce
#90. Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don't just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.
Kevin Roberts
#91. My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?
Tucker Max
#92. But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
E. M. Forster
#93. The first thing politicians ask after these tragedies is essentially: "What can we do to limit the freedom of the people?"
And that is the wrong question. The question we should be asking is: "What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?
Sarah Palin
#94. That's not the question you should be asking, though, if this is a dream. The question you should be asking is what you're going to do now? Because you're awake?
T.J. Klune
#95. And what of you?" At Auric's foolish question, I snickered. "You're asking the biggest manwhore if he remembered a possible one night stand, among dozens - " "Hundreds," my father interjected. " - that created me? Seriously?" "I didn't know who Muri's mother was, but she was mine.
Eve Langlais
#96. How are you still sane?"
"Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."
Shit.
Brodi Ashton
#97. Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that's behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don't know wellness. You've learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.
Monica A. Coleman
#98. He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
William Gaddis
#99. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?
Marilynne Robinson
#100. He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.
Stephen King
