I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Question everything.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
~By Tina Yothers ~
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 ~
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
~By Bill Walton ~
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 ~
Good questions outrank easy answers.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~By Jackie Mason ~
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 ~
The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
~By Bob Mould ~
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
~By Francoise Sagan ~
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
~By Donald Kagan ~
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
~By Georg Cantor ~
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
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 ~
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
~By Kevin Smith ~
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
~By Johnny Depp ~
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
~By Donald Johanson ~
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
~By Karel Capek ~
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
~By John Bates Clark ~
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 ~
If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'
~By Bob Guccione ~
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 ~
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
~By Plautus ~
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
~By Charles Tupper ~
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 ~
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
~By Paul Haggis ~
That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
~By Julie Benz ~
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 ~
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
~By Jim Wallis ~
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
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 ~
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
~By Herman Hesse ~
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
~By Allen Tate ~
I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~By Johnny Depp ~
The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.
~By David Obey ~
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
~By Jones Very ~
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 ~
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 ~
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
~By Joseph Howe ~
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
~By John Ruskin ~
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
~By Immanuel Kant ~
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 ~
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
~By Burt Ward ~
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
~By Evan Parker ~
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 ~
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 ~
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
~By Marcel Duchamp ~
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 ~
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
~By Herbert Simon ~
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
~By Larry Flynt ~
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
~By Paula Cole ~
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 ~
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
~By Ira Glass ~
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 ~
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.
~By Robert Scheer ~
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
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 ~
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.
~By David Korten ~
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
~By Herman Gorter ~
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.
~By Steven Squyres ~
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
~By Levi Strauss ~
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
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 ~
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.
~By Angela Merkel ~
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
~By John Doolittle ~
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
~By Imran Khan ~
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
~By Dean Kamen ~
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~By Voltaire ~
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