Question Quotes - page 12

Is there life before death? - that is the question! (Anthony de Mello)
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories. View quote
P. L. Travers
They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
The original answer defines certain conditions, [...] Anything else is a different question. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones. View quote
Yanni
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question. View quote
Vera Rubin
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built. View quote
Paul Keating
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit. View quote
John Templeton
Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better To that there is an answer. (Leo Buscaglia)
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
Too hard for any frog's digestion, To have his froghood call'd in question! View quote
Christopher Smart
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. View quote
Ann Coulter
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. View quote
David Mamet
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. View quote
Matthew Arnold
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? View quote
Ann Druyan
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up. View quote
J. L. Austin
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance. View quote
Émile Chartier
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. (Garry Kasparov)
I was gung-ho, no question about that. View quote
Frank Buckles
Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have. View quote
Sam Harris
Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours." View quote
Charlie Brooker
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. View quote
Guy Debord