The Question Quotes
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.
I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.
I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.
If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.
One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.
It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.
The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.
This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
If the world loves you, question your relationship with Jesus Christ. John 15:18-25.
