300 Quotes on Questions

• That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

  Author: John Zorn

• My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

  Author: Rick Yune

• 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.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

  Author: David Wu

• The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

  Author: Chauncey Wright

• I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

  Author: Louise Woodward

• I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

  Author: George Woodcock

• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Author: Diane Wood

• I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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

• To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  Author: Ted Williams

• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

  Author: Emma Watson

• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  Author: Ulrich Walter

• 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

• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Author: Voltaire

• It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  Author: Carl Vechten

• The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• I like the big questions.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• 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?'

  Author: John Tuley

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

  Author: James Thurber

• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Author: Freeman Thomas

• It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Ernst Thalmann

• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

  Author: Ron Suskind

• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

  Author: Levi Strauss

• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

  Author: Robert Stone

• If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  Author: George Stigler

• What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

  Author: Saul Steinberg

• It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• 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.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

  Author: Layne Staley

• The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

  Author: John Sr.

• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

  Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

• The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

  Author: Lillian Smith

• Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

  Author: Kevin Smith

• It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

  Author: John Sladek

• In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

  Author: John Sirica

• 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.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.

  Author: Allen Simmons

• 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.

  Author: Simone Signoret

• Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

  Author: George Shaw

• If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

  Author: William Shatner

• Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

  Author: John Searle

• Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

  Author: Maximilian Schell

• Great questions make great reporting.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  Author: George Santayana

• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

  Author: Morley Safer

• I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

  Author: Kurt Russell

• 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.

  Author: Henry Russell

• I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

  Author: Hugh Roper

• To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty.

  Author: Alfonso Robles

• Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

  Author: Boyd Rice

• I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

  Author: Anne Rice

• I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

  Author: Anne Rice

• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

  Author: William Rehnquist

• Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Author: Godfrey Reggio

• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  Author: Vanessa Redgrave

• Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

  Author: Thomas Pynchon

• The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.

  Author: David Prowse

• You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

  Author: Herbert Prochnow

• How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

  Author: John Poindexter

• I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

  Author: Martha Plimpton

• Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

  Author: Steven Pinker

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

  Author: Daniel Petrie

• I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

  Author: Robin Penn

• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

  Author: Anne Parillaud

• Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

  Author: David Packard

• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  Author: Marie Osmond

• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

  Author: John Osborne

• That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

  Author: Phillip Noyce

• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

  Author: Phillip Noyce

• 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

• The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

  Author: Alva Noto

• But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

  Author: James Newman

• And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

  Author: Nils-Axel Morner

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  Author: J. Miller

• Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

  Author: Michael Medved

• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  Author: Patrick McGoohan

• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Author: Carolyn McCarthy

• The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

  Author: Brian May

• The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

  Author: James Maxwell

• I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

  Author: Walter Martin

• 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.

  Author: Eddie Marsan

• Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

  Author: Merrill Markoe

• Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

  Author: Merrill Markoe

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  Author: Og Mandino

• War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  Author: Yo-Yo Ma

• One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• 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.

  Author: Courtney Love

• If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

  Author: Kurt Loder

• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

  Author: John Locke

• Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

  Author: Sonny Liston

• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

  Author: C. Lewis

• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

• The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

  Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Author: Edward Levi

• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  Author: Karl Lehmann

• On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

  Author: Ang Lee

• I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

  Author: Jude Law

• What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

  Author: Johann Lavater

• This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

  Author: Wilfrid Laurier

• The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

  Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

  Author: Susanne Langer

• I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

  Author: Serge Lang

• Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

  Author: Serge Lang

• Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

  Author: Serge Lang

• To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

  Author: Serge Lang

• My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

  Author: Brian Lamb

• The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

  Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

• I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• 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.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

  Author: Anthony Kennedy

• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.

  Author: Jonathan Kellerman

• Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

  Author: Michael Keaton

• I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

  Author: Stacy Keach

• 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.

  Author: David Kay

• There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

  Author: Leon Kass

• When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• 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.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

  Author: Bill Joy

• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

  Author: Janis Joplin

• Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.

  Author: Sue Johanson

• 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.

  Author: Donald Johanson

• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  Author: Peter Jennings

• The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

  Author: Jerry Jenkins

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Author: Antony Jay

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  Author: Karl Jaspers

• Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

  Author: Gerald Jampolsky

• For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

  Author: Francois Jacob

• 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.

  Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

• Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

  Author: Gwen Ifill

• God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

  Author: King Hussein I

• 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.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Author: Zora Hurston

• I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

  Author: Richard Hughes

• And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

  Author: Karen Hughes

• When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

  Author: Charles Hughes

• I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

  Author: Lou Holtz

• I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

  Author: Herman Hesse

• Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

  Author: Gustav Heinemann

• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  Author: Stephen Hawking

• And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.

  Author: Steven Hatfill

• I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

  Author: Orrin Hatch

• If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

  Author: Robert Half

• I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

  Author: Paul Haggis

• Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

  Author: Mark Haddon

• I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

  Author: Mark Haddon

• Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

  Author: Steve Hackett

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  Author: Ursula Guin

• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Author: Ursula Guin

• The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.

  Author: Justin Guarini

• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions.

  Author: Terry Gross

• People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

  Author: Rupert Grint

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  Author: Harold Greene

• The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

  Author: Brian Greene

• I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

  Author: Richard Grant

• But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

  Author: Amy Grant

• There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

  Author: Eydie Gorme

• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Author: Johann Goethe

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

  Author: Danny Glover

• My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

  Author: Gina Gershon

• I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

  Author: Jean Genet

• I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

  Author: Jeff Gannon

• Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

  Author: Jeff Gannon

• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  Author: Maggie Gallagher

• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Author: Galileo Galilei

• I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

  Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg

• There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

  Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg

• Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  Author: Hans Frank

• To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  Author: Harrison Ford

• If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

  Author: Raymond Feist

• Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

  Author: Michael Fassbender

• I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

  Author: Clifton Fadiman

• I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

  Author: Bret Ellis

• Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

  Author: George Eliot

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

  Author: Dave Eggers

• The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

  Author: Charles Eames

• 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.

  Author: Griffin Dunne

• In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

  Author: Alan Dundes

• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Author: Peter Drucker

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

  Author: Janez Drnovsek

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

  Author: Pete Domenici

• It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

  Author: Betty Dodson

• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  Author: Charles Dickens

• 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.

  Author: Jared Diamond

• The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

  Author: Alan Dershowitz

• You should not ask questions without knowledge.

  Author: W. Deming

• 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.

  Author: Edwidge Danticat

• It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

  Author: Georges Cuvier

• A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.

  Author: Ronald Colman

• I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.

  Author: Henry Cole

• I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

  Author: Joel Coen

• Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

  Author: Brian Cleary

• Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

  Author: John Clayton

• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

  Author: Arthur Clarke

• 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.

  Author: Laurel Clark

• My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

  Author: Steven Chu

• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  Author: Kate Chopin

• Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

  Author: Tommy Chong

• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

  Author: Noam Chomsky

• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Author: Pierre Chardin

• I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

  Author: Tracy Chapman

• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

  Author: Chanakya

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