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Quotes About Questioning

It was neither welcoming nor antagonistic, just a question. I wondered if it would be easier to lie.
~ Storm Constantine
We are one another, Finn. I'm not sure what's happening here. I'm not sure why I need to do this.
~ Storm Constantine
Ays felt sure the man would swing across to them soon. What would he say? In his heart, Ays prepared himself, scripted questions. Was it you at the wind orchestra, you in the shadows of this morning? Why? What do you want of me? He longed to hear the answer, feeling it would somehow open his perceptions for more than the strongest dose of hela ever would.
~ Storm Constantine
Are you just a bored man with too much money, who needs to while away the long hours of an empty life by mystifying people?
~ Storm Constantine
It is not your place to question. You are only a servant of the Light. You must do as we ask. If you refuse, we will act through you in any case, but you may well be lost.
~ Storm Constantine
And who are you exactly? Might I ask what you want?" "We want you," said the man. "And who am I?
~ Storm Constantine
I came to you as a shower of gold, yet you asked to see my true face. Now you see it. Are you dying, Daniel? Are you burning up?
~ Storm Constantine
Yet, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" opens up a political question. Why should this man be penniless at any time in his life, due to some fantastic thing called a Depression or sickness or whatever it is that makes him so insecure?
~ Studs Terkel
blind obedience is never good for a civilization because when people stop thinking, it kills progress.
~ Subhadra Sen Gupta
Eva said, Are you sure that it's my husband, Dr Brian Beaver, she's carrying on with? Only he's not the type. "He's a man, isn't he?" Said Nicola.
~ Sue Townsend
I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
~ Suheir Hammad
God and I aren't exactly on speaking terms these days.
~ Susan Carol McCarthy
She lets it slip because she does. Don't ask her Why now? Ask her Why not every moment up to now?
~ Susan Choi
Is Papa crying, do you suppose?' whispered John.
~ Susan Coolidge
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.
~ Javed Akhtar
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law.
~ David Harbour
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
~ Clifford Geertz
My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball when the reverse happens?
~ Jessica Mendoza
I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: 'I need to understand why we're doing this.'
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
~ Arthur Erickson
I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.
~ Katy Perry
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
~ Barack Obama
Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.
~ Don Lemon