I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
~By Dan Brown ~
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
~By Ben Nelson ~
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
~By Ruth Bernhard ~
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
~By Rob Corddry ~
Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.
~By Louis Stokes ~
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
~By Courtney Love ~
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
~By Clive Bell ~
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
~By Robert Half ~
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~By Gore Vidal ~
So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
~By John Locke ~
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
~By John A. Simone, Sr. ~
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
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 ~
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
~By Pete Domenici ~
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
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 ~
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
~By Dee Hock ~
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
~By Allen Tate ~
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
~By Ulrich Walter ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are two sides to every question.
~By Protagoras ~
It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
~By Agnes E. Meyer ~
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
~By Stephen Douglas ~
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
~By Roger Bannister ~
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
~By Albert Maltz ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
~By Todd McFarlane ~
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~By Chanakya ~
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
~By Alva Noto ~
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 ~
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
~By Francis Bacon ~
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
~By Bob Mould ~
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
~By Arthur Guiterman ~
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
~By Edward Bond ~
You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
~By Birch Bayh ~
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 ~
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
~By Joichi Ito ~
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 ~
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.
~By Ralph Harper ~
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
~By Tommy Chong ~
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
~By Marie Osmond ~
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
~By Edith Stein ~
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 ~
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 ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~
Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~By Kurt Russell ~
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 ~
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 ~
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
~By Jill Scott ~
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.
~By Ronald Colman ~
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.
~By Stephanie Martson ~
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
~By Antony Sher ~
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
~By Paul Scofield ~
Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.
~By Tim Reid ~
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
~By Kate Adie ~
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
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 ~
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
~By Yeardley Smith ~
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
~By James Collins ~
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
~By Niels Bohr ~
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
~By Kevin Williamson ~
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 ~
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
~By Dorothy Canfield Fisher ~
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
~By Andre braugher ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
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 ~
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
~By Herman Hesse ~
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
~By Henry Norris Russell ~
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