People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
~By Nick Cave ~
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
~By Roger Penrose ~
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
~By Bono ~
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
~By Larry Flynt ~
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
~By Jeannette Walls ~
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
~By Antiphanes ~
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. ~
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
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 ~
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
~By Alva Noto ~
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
~By Brian Greene ~
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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 ~
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
~By Andre Malraux ~
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
~By Martin Mull ~
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
~By Dudley North ~
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
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 ~
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 questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
~By James Randi ~
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
The media's job is to question a premise.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
~By Will Durant ~
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
~By Ken Follet ~
It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
~By George Crook ~
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~By Simone Signoret ~
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.
~By Paul M. Glaser ~
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.
~By Julian Barbour ~
To do or not to do... that is the question.
~By Jeff Rich ~
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
~By Bob Graham ~
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~By Thomas Babington ~
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
I like the big questions.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.
~By David Sanborn ~
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
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 ~
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
~By Albert Claude ~
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
~By Alice Walker ~
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
~By Allan Sloan ~
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
~By Anne Perry ~
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
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 ~
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
~By John Hewson ~
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
~By George Wald ~
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
~By Thomas Berger ~
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 ~
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
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 ~
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
~By James Thurber ~
I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
~By Kim Novak ~
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
~By Fernand Leger ~
Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
~By Don Nickles ~
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~By Voltaire ~
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
~By Prince Andrew ~
We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
~By Brit Hume ~
Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
~By Kristen Stewart ~
It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
~By Harrison Ford ~
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
~By Rockwell Kent ~
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
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 ~
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
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 ~
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
~By Georges Cuvier ~
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
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 ~
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
~By Pete Seeger ~
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
~By Otto Schily ~
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.
~By Rick Wagoner ~
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
~By Howard Fineman ~
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.
~By William Rehnquist ~
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 ~
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
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 ~
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
~By Peter Hammill ~
My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
~By Howard Staunton ~
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