300 Quotes on Question

• Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

  Author: Shoshana Zuboff

• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• 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.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• 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.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

  Author: Chen Yang

• Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

  Author: William Wycherley

• I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• 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.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.

  Author: Will Wright

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• 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.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

  Author: Ted Williams

• One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

  Author: Roy Williams

• Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

  Author: Robin Williams

• I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

  Author: Juan Williams

• My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

  Author: Esther Williams

• I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

  Author: Anson Williams

• Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• 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

• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

  Author: Julius Wellhausen

• There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• 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.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

  Author: Bill Walton

• I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

  Author: Jeannette Walls

• 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.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• 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.

  Author: Jim Wallis

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

  Author: Alice Walker

• 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.

  Author: George Wald

• 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

• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• 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.

  Author: Henry Wade

• Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

  Author: Peter Vries

• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

  Author: Voltaire

• When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

  Author: Voltaire

• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Author: Jon Voight

• 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.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

  Author: Charles Vest

• 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.

  Author: Jones Very

• I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

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

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• 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

• One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

  Author: Shania Twain

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Charles Tupper

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

  Author: John Tuley

• 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

• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

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

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  Author: Calvin Trillin

• 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.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

  Author: Lily Tomlin

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

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• 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

• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  Author: Randall Terry

• The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

  Author: John Templeton

• People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

  Author: Robert Teeter

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

  Author: Allen Tate

• How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

  Author: Allen Tate

• It is not every question that deserves an answer.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

  Author: Hal Sutton

• I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

  Author: William Sumner

• The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

  Author: Kurt Student

• There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

  Author: Hudson Stuck

• I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

  Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

• 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.

  Author: Anna Strong

• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

  Author: Peter Straub

• How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

  Author: David Stiers

• 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?'

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• 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.

  Author: Edith Stein

• The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

  Author: William Stafford

• There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

  Author: Brent Spiner

• When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

  Author: Boris Spassky

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

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• 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

• Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

  Author: David Smith

• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• 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.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

  Author: Tom Sizemore

• 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

• I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

  Author: Paul Simon

• People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

  Author: John Simon

• Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

  Author: Joe Simon

• Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

  Author: Russell Simmons

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

  Author: Nigel Short

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

  Author: Martin Short

• So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

  Author: Clare Short

• In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

  Author: Hu Shih

• There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

  Author: Mark Shields

• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• 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.

  Author: Antony Sher

• I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

  Author: George Shearing

• There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

  Author: Christopher Shays

• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  Author: George Shaw

• I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  Author: Karl Shapiro

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

  Author: William Shakespeare

• I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

  Author: William Seward

• 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.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• 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

• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  Author: W. Sebald

• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Author: Willard Scott

• 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

• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

  Author: Alfred Schnittke

• Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

  Author: Menachem Schneerson

• 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.

  Author: Otto Schily

• 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

• It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

  Author: Anne Schaef

• 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?

  Author: Dick Schaap

• In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• 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.

  Author: Graeme Saux

• 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.

  Author: Eisaku Sato

• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• 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.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

  Author: Jonas Salk

• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• 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.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• 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.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  Author: Dora Russell

• 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.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Mercedes Ruehl

• Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

  Author: Rita Rudner

• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  Author: Vera Rubin

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  Author: Galen Rowell

• 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

• I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

  Author: Rick Ross

• Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  Author: Carl Rogers

• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

  Author: Gene Roddenberry

• The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

  Author: John Rockefeller

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  Author: Zack Rocha

• 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.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

  Author: Chuck Robb

• There is no longer time for statements like "if only" or "we can't." We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

  Author: Bob Riley

• Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

  Author: Ellen Richards

• When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

  Author: Little Richard

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

  Author: Jeff Rich

• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  Author: Anne Rice

• Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

  Author: Tim Reid

• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Author: Thomas Reid

• No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

  Author: Dixie Ray

• A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

  Author: Johannes Rau

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

  Author: Charles Rangel

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

  Author: Ayn Rand

• The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

  Author: Sellapan Ramanathan

• It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  Author: Karl Radek

• To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  Author: Dan Quayle

• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

  Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

• There are two sides to every question.

  Author: Protagoras

• Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• It's a difficult question of relations between people.

  Author: Frank Press

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

  Author: Mark Poster

• For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

  Author: John Pomfret

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

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

• If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

  Author: John Podesta

• There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

  Author: Plautus

• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  Author: Max Planck

• The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

  Author: Abbe Pierre

• The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• 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.

  Author: Anne Perry

• 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.

  Author: Richard Perle

• There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.

  Author: John Perkins

• As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• 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

• There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

  Author: Maxfield Parrish

• 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.

  Author: Evan Parker

• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

  Author: Olof Palme

• It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

  Author: Adnan Pachachi

• They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.

  Author: Robert Owen

• MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

  Author: James Otis

• They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

  Author: Lee Oswald

• Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

• As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

  Author: George Oppen

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• 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?

  Author: Hakeem Olajuwon

• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

  Author: Edna O'Brien

• There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

  Author: Michael Nyman

• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

  Author: Michael Novak

• 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.

  Author: Kim Novak

• 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.

  Author: Alva Noto

• There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• 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.

  Author: Oliver North

• 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.

  Author: Dudley North

• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  Author: Donald Norman

• The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

  Author: Albert Nock

• The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

  Author: Leslie Nielsen

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  Author: Harold Nicolson

• Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

  Author: Don Nickles

• 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.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• 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.

  Author: Richard Neal

• I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

  Author: Mira Nair

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• 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.

  Author: Mike Myers

• '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

• 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.

  Author: Martin Mull

• If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

  Author: Johann Most

• I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• 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

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

  Author: Mario Monti

• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  Author: Mario Monti

• Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

  Author: Eugenio Montale

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

  Author: Jean Monnet

• 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

• Question everything.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

  Author: Dannii Minogue

• President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

  Author: Wilbur Mills

• What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.

  Author: Merton Miller

• The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

  Author: Kenneth Miller

• The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

  Author: Bode Miller

• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  Author: Vic Mignogna

• 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.

  Author: Agnes Meyer

• The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

  Author: Golda Meir

• To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

  Author: Golda Meir

• I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

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