Top 100 The Question Quotes
#1. I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
Karl Lehmann
#2. The question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#4. Herr Schiller? Are there really any such things as ghosts?' The old man did not even show surprise at the question. He heaved a sigh. 'Yes Pia, there are. But never the ones you expect.
Helen Grant
#5. How to lie without lying? Avoid answering the question.
Chloe Neill
#6. No bit of tail ever comes between you and Prince Charming. He must have entranced you."
"Prince Charming?" Falin asked, the question barely a whisper. "What did you think PC stood for? Politically Correct?
Kalayna Price
#7. A shared vision is not an idea ... it is rather, a force in people's hearts ... at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?
Peter Senge
#8. Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
Robert McNamara
#9. Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
Charles R. Swindoll
#10. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works
Barack Obama
#11. And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.
Carl Icahn
#12. You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
Orrin Woodward
#14. The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes
#15. How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles, - are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.
Plato
#16. If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.
Dorothy Leeds
#17. Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.
Peter Kreeft
#18. I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#19. 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
#20. Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
Oscar Wilde
#21. So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?
Charles Frazier
#22. The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?
J.F. Baldwin
#23. The question wasn't when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society's rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
Courtney Milan
#24. The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
Brene Brown
#25. 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
#26. Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
Orson Scott Card
#27. We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?
Louise Penny
#28. Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.
Thomas King
#29. The war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it.
Brian Francis Slattery
#30. What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'
Michael Mann
#32. Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
Vijay Kumar
#33. None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.
Francis Chan
#34. Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?
Robin Cook
#35. We make history every day, Professor. The question is whether or not you'll be remembered for it.
Grant McKingsley
Samuel L. Norman
#36. Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'
Jean Piaget
#37. The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra
#38. DTH, as in direct to home?" she asked the question i had prepared my answer for.
"No DTH here is direct to heart," i said, hoping she would laugh this time.
Sumrit Shahi
#39. I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
William S. Burroughs
#40. The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?
Shannon L. Alder
#41. The question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.
Thucydides
#42. I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.
Marjane Satrapi
#43. I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much."
"I'm sorry," she said.
"Will it ever get better?"
The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I ... I don't know.
Richelle Mead
#44. I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.
Tom Basso
#45. 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
#46. People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
Dimitar Sasselov
#47. Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth
Sunday Adelaja
#48. I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
Laura Marling
#49. If there is a God, the King of kings, there is also a Kingdom. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be an army. Now the question is, are you in this army and are you willing to fight for your King?
Artur Pawlowski
#50. What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?
Ashleigh Brilliant
#52. The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world
Karl Taylor Compton
#53. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
F. W. De Klerk
#54. John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.
David Pietrusza
#55. Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it?
Deyth Banger
#56. Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
Joseph Wood Krutch
#57. Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
V.S. Ramachandran
#58. Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
Cormac McCarthy
#59. The only answers to the question, "why me", are more situations that raise the same question. That's because self-pity is a wall that blocks all light.
Charles F. Glassman
#60. The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts.
Dave Barry
#61. Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?
Richelle Mead
#62. The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
Alan Keyes
#63. On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
Angela Merkel
#64. If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.
Jack Butler Yeats
#65. The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?
Leo Tolstoy
#66. The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Jerry Saltz
#67. If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.
Tony Campolo
#68. The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin
#70. The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make?
The answer was eerily simple.
I had time to make all of them.
Richelle Mead
#71. And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.
Eric Hobsbawm
#72. To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
Markus Zusak
#73. Galen: New research and technological development is out of the question at this juncture. Work up a full proposal for the exhaust port solution and send the plans to Vodran for SSCR. [Document
Alexander Freed
#74. Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?
Vironika Tugaleva
#75. Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the unrealistic hope that the wolves would one day discover the advantages of vegetarianism.
Theodore Dalrymple
#76. It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
Boman Irani
#77. We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.
Michael Spence
#78. Like politics? I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I'd first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It
Barack Obama
#79. Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
Hugo Ball
#80. Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is.
Todd Friel
#81. There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!
Billy Graham
#82. Academic sceptics argued for the conclusion that knowledge was impossible; Pyrrhonian sceptics aimed to reach no conclusions at all, suspending judgement on all questions, even the question of the possibility of knowledge.
Jennifer Nagel
#83. The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
Neal Shusterman
#84. When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?
Karen Marie Moning
#85. I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
Toni Morrison
#86. It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology - we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.
Ayn Rand
#87. What I mean is, one can't help one's fears. The question isn't if you're a fellow who cries in the night before a big engagement - and I knew a damned brave man who did exactly that, regularly. It's whether you pick yourself up the next day.
K.J. Charles
#88. My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
Dexter Scott King
#89. The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
Alan Watts
#90. There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
Rebecca Solnit
#91. The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?
Aaron Copland
#92. Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#93. After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student
#94. Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?
Anastasia Lily
#95. The question is, how long does Mr. Spinny have to live? And what does that tell us?
Neal Stephenson
#96. The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
Joan Ganz Cooney
#97. I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#98. 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
#99. Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.
David Bezmozgis
#100. At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers
