It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
~By Candace Cameron ~
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
~By Euripides ~
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
~By Joel Coen ~
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~By Anne Rice ~
To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.
~By Paul Darrow ~
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Effective management always means asking the right question.
~By Robert Heller ~
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
~By Mario Monti ~
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 ~
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
~By Arthur Guiterman ~
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
~By Bill Joy ~
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
~By Victor Garber ~
We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
~By Ignatius Loyola ~
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~By Franz Kafka ~
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
~By William Tyndale ~
Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.
~By Allen Simmons ~
We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.
~By Ron Kind ~
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
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 ~
It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.
~By Sue Wicks ~
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
~By Erwin Chargaff ~
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
~By James H. Breasted ~
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
~By Angelina Grimke ~
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 ~
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
~By James Collins ~
I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
~By Martha Plimpton ~
One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
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 ~
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
~By Bob Mould ~
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
~By Michael York ~
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
~By Ira Glass ~
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
~By Cotton Mather ~
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
~By Karl Radek ~
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
~By Johannes Rau ~
I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
~By Robert Toombs ~
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
~By James Wolfe ~
There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
~By John Perkins ~
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~By George Crook ~
Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
~By Georg Cantor ~
There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.
~By Howard Stern ~
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
~By George Lucas ~
There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
~By Bill Scott ~
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.
~By Rick Yune ~
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 ~
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
~By Henry Wade ~
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
~By Rob Morrow ~
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
~By Harold Ramis ~
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
~By Richard Cobden ~
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
~By Myriam Miedzian ~
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
~By William Shatner ~
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
~By William J. Brennan ~
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
~By Laurence Fishburne ~
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~By John J. Sirica ~
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
~By Galen Rowell ~
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 ~
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
~By James W. Black ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
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