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 ~
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 ~
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~By Marilyn French ~
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
~By Jon Voight ~
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
~By William B. Riley ~
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
~By David Kay ~
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
~By Donald Cram ~
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 ~
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
~By John Ciardi ~
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
~By Sean Connery ~
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
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 ~
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
~By John Podesta ~
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
~By Mason Cooley ~
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
~By Richard Perle ~
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
~By Winona Ryder ~
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 should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
~By Preston Brooks ~
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
~By W. C. Fields ~
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
~By Harry Houdini ~
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
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 ~
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
~By Richard Neal ~
Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
~By Dick Schaap ~
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
~By Edmond About ~
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
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 ~
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
~By George Eliot ~
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
~By Miles Davis ~
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
~By Serge Lang ~
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 ~
There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
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 ~
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
~By Barbara Olson ~
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~By Albert Einstein ~
There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
~By Judy Chicago ~
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
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 ~
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
~By Oliver North ~
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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 ~
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
~By Tony Robbins ~
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
~By Gray Davis ~
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've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
~By Eli Wallach ~
I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
~By Lamar Hunt ~
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 ~
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
~By Samuel Butler ~
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
~By Golda Meir ~
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.
~By Edward Cocker ~
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~By William Wycherley ~
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
~By Todd Solondz ~
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 ~
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
~By Billy Higgins ~
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
~By Albert Camus ~
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
~By Jose Ortega Y Gasset ~
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
~By William Stafford ~
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
~By Ann Robinson ~
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 ~
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
~By Bono ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
~By George Leigh Mallory ~
We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
~By Laurel Clark ~
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.
~By Katie Holmes ~
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.
~By Steve Burns ~
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 ~
Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
~By James Collins ~
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
~By David Bohm ~
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 ~
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