Quotes on Question

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

Author: Aldrich Ames

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Author: David Attenborough

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

Author: Ernie Banks

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

Author: Martin Bashir

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Author: Bo Bennett

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Author: Nikolai Berdyaev

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Author: Yogi Berra

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.

Author: James Black

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

Author: Cate Blanchett

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Author: Peter Bondra

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Author: Jacob Bronowski

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Author: Lois Bujold

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

Author: George Bush

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Author: Tony Campolo

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

Author: Lewis Carroll

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.

Author: Joel Coen

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

Author: James Collins

Never ask a bore a question.

Author: Mason Cooley

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Author: Courteney Cox

I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.

Author: Hart Crane

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Author: e. cummings

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

Author: Ron Davies

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Author: Joan Didion

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.

Author: Everett Dirksen

To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question.

Author: Shannen Doherty

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

Author: Janez Drnovsek

I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

Author: Bernard Ebbers

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Author: Anthony Eden

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Author: Albert Einstein

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

Author: Daniel Ellsberg

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Author: Edward Fitzgerald

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Author: Thomas Fuller

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Author: Ernest Gaines

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Author: Jose Gasset

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Author: Barry Gibb

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

Author: Paul Glaser

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Author: Ira Glass

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

Author: Danny Glover

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Author: Jean-Luc Godard

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

Author: Martin Gore

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Author: Stephen Gould

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.

Author: Ralph Harper

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Author: Jim Harrison

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.

Author: Thomas Harrison

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Author: Goldie Hawn

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Author: Hermann Helmholtz

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Author: Abraham Heschel

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.

Author: Billy Higgins

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Author: Napoleon Hill

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Author: Damien Hirst

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Author: Nick Hornby

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Author: Eugene Ionesco

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?

Author: Joichi Ito

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Author: Nicholas Johnson

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?

Author: Donald Kagan

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Author: Aldo Leopold

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

Author: Gustav Mahler

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

Author: Shirley Manson

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Author: Jackie Mason

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

Author: Colleen McCullough

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.

Author: Todd McFarlane

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Author: Malcolm Mclaren

Question everything.

Author: Maria Mitchell

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.

Author: Isaac Mizrahi

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Author: Jean Monnet

Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.

Author: Mario Monti

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.

Author: Mary Moore

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

Author: Ellen Muth

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

Author: Talcott Parsons

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Author: Sydney Pollack

There are two sides to every question.

Author: Protagoras

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Author: Ayn Rand

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Author: Charles Rangel

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

Author: Dixie Ray

To do or not to do... that is the question.

Author: Jeff Rich

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

Author: Galen Rowell

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?

Author: Bertrand Russell

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

Author: Bob Schieffer

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

Author: George Scott

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

Author: Jay Sekulow

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Author: William Shakespeare

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

Author: Martin Short

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Author: Nigel Short

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.

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

Author: Ian Smith

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Author: Thomas Sowell

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Author: Gertrude Stein

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Author: Gertrude Stein

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.

Author: Gertrude Stein

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.

Author: Howard Stern

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Author: Publilius Syrus

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Author: Allen Tate

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Author: Helen Thomas

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

Author: Ian Thorpe

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Author: Paul Tsongas

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Author: John Tukey

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

Author: John Tuley

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Author: Jonathan Turley

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

Author: Mark Udall

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

Author: Jesse Ventura

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

Author: George Wald

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Author: Alice Walker

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Author: Walt Whitman

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Author: Roger Wicker