If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
~By Rob Walton ~
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
~By George C. Scott ~
That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
~By Hal Sutton ~
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
~By Jim Bakker ~
I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
~By Paul McCartney ~
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
What you are is a question only you can answer.
~By Lois McMaster Bujold ~
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
~By Kathleen Battle ~
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
~By Robert Casey ~
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
~By Oliver Stone ~
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
~By Oscar Levant ~
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
~By Sigmund Freud ~
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
~By Hu Shih ~
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
~By George Eliot ~
One can always debate questions back and forth.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
~By Robert H. Austin ~
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
~By Mike Myers ~
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
~By Mark Bittman ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
~By Steig Larsson ~
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~By Kurt Russell ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~By Peter Abelard ~
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~By Richard Bach ~
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
~By Gary Coleman ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
~By Cynthia McKinney ~
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~By Jackie Mason ~
I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
~By Mira Nair ~
I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
~By Judy Biggert ~
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
~By John Hewson ~
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~By Brian Greene ~
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
~By Billy Higgins ~
One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
~By Shania Twain ~
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
~By John Dingell ~
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
~By Serge Lang ~
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
~By Richard Hughes ~
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~By George Santayana ~
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
~By Richard Bach ~
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
~By Hugh Trevor Roper ~
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
~By Mary Astor ~
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~By David Hilbert ~
I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.
~By Milton Bradley ~
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
~By Leon Kass ~
The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
~By Mason Cooley ~
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
~By Susan Sontag ~
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
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.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~By Thomas Babington ~
That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.
~By Helen Suzman ~
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
~By Lukas Haas ~
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
~By Kiana Tom ~
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
~By John Tuley ~
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
~By Golda Meir ~
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~By Alan Dundes ~
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.
~By Joe Simon ~
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
~By Jeb Bush ~
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
~By Gray Davis ~
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
~By Miles Davis ~
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
~By Gene Roddenberry ~
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
~By Herman Kahn ~
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.
~By Ed Rendell ~
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
~By Chris Matthews ~
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