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Quotes About Questioning

Why are you here? Her words were a thread of silver in the moonlight. His answer was deep as the deepest shadows. You offered to be my inamorata, remember?
~ Stephanie Laurens
Why... didn't you make me good enough... so that you could've loved me?
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
Great doubt—great awakening; Little doubt—little awakening; No doubt—no awakening.
~ Stephen Batchelor
It is only when the question ceases to be identified with the subject-verb-predicate structure of grammar, and is recognized within its original ground, within existence itself, that we can start looking for an answer. But such an answer will not be restricted to the confinements of language; it too must be revealed within an existential structure.
~ Stephen Batchelor
When we stop fleeing birth and death, the grip of anguish is loosened and existence reveals itself as a question.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.
~ Stephen Baxter
Which one of you's the bitch?
~ Stephen Baxter
If the answer is not the one you want, maybe you're not asking the right question.
~ Stephen Baxter
My God,' said Josh Morris, sounding aghast. 'What have we done?' And he laughed.
~ Stephen Baxter
Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be but it doesn't feel right
~ Stephen Chbosky
Is that you, Charlie? Sam's making me a milkshake.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking 'why?' all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking "why?" all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Só queria que Deus, ou meus pais, ou minha irmã, ou alguém, me dissesse o que há de errado comigo. Que me dissesse como ser diferente de uma forma que faça sentido. Que fizesse tudo isso parar. E desaparecer. Sei que é errado, porque a responsabilidade é minha, e sei que as coisas pioram antes de melhorar porque é o que diz meu psiquiatra, mas essa fase pior está grande demais para mim.
~ Stephen Chbosky
But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I sat there driving through America wondering about Barry Soetoro and his disciples. I have never trusted people who think they know how everyone else should live, and demand those other people obey. I am not a good follower. Aaugh!
~ Stephen Coonts
If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a vast blue, Echoless, ignorant -- What then?
~ Stephen Crane
LCVI If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, Echoless, ignorant,- What then?
~ Stephen Crane