No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
~By Charles Dickens ~
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
~By Ernst Thalmann ~
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
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 ~
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
~By Spike Lee ~
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.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
~By David Attenborough ~
This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.
~By Peter Bondra ~
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 ~
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
~By Joan Baez ~
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 ~
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
~By Bo Bennett ~
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
~By Calvin Trillin ~
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.
~By Ann Coulter ~
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 ~
There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?
~By Roone Arledge ~
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~By Joan Rivers ~
The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.
~By Allen Simmons ~
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
~By Jim Wallis ~
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
~By Charles Vest ~
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
~By Ted Williams ~
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
~By Joy Page ~
And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.
~By Jane Mayer ~
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
~By Peter De Vries ~
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
~By Freeman Thomas ~
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
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.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
~By Warren Weaver ~
I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
~By Joe Sacco ~
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
~By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
~By George Shearing ~
What you are is a question only you can answer.
~By Lois McMaster Bujold ~
The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.
~By David Guterson ~
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
~By Andy Warhol ~
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
~By Daniel Okrent ~
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
~By James Lipton ~
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
~By Romano Prodi ~
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
~By Robert Kagan ~
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
~By Robert Toombs ~
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
~By Ricky Williams ~
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
~By Lee Kuan Yew ~
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.
~By Joel Coen ~
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~By Bill Gates ~
The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
~By Bob Woodward ~
It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.
~By Helen Suzman ~
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
~By Liam Neeson ~
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
~By Walter Martin ~
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
~By George Combe ~
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
~By Pierre Curie ~
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
~By Rick Wright ~
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
~By Carl Spitteler ~
They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
~By George Oppen ~
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
~By Howard Dean ~
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~By Thomas Babington ~
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
~By John Dingell ~
Life is essentially a question of values.
~By Meir Kahane ~
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
~By Ruby Dee ~
This question about Iraq has gotten personal.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
~By Paul Allen ~
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
~By Charles Rangel ~
There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.
~By William M. Daley ~
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
~By James Madison ~
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 ~
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
~By Andre Malraux ~
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
~By Jim Bakker ~
It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.
~By Glenn Close ~
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
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