Quotes About Questioning

You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.

opinion, sir? You have not denied that my scenario is plausible. You have not denied that this premeditated murder might have happened in precisely the fashion I have just described, have you, Mr. Gillanders—have you?" "No, I haven't," Josiah said. "But—" "No further questions

And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

Conservatism does not have a party line. It is possible for conservatives to question virtually any position held by other conservatives including, evidently, the notion that they are conservatives at all, without risking excommunication, expulsion, or even a raised eyebrow.

aloof , adj . It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: "What are you thinking?" It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

seriously, is this what the rest of my life is going to be? i don't think i signed up for this.

You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly.

Do they sleep? I want to know...am I the only one who doesn't sleep?

Whats up? he asked. Up, I thought. This, I said, looking down at the photo in my hand. Down, I thought.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it—he wonders what that means.

You never asked what my anthem was. But that's okay, because I still don't know what I'd answer.

Why must we die over and over again?

I told him I wasn't feeling well. When what I meant was that I'm feeling uneasy. Uncertain. Calling everything into question and wanting to bend it into the answer I want. I don't think that in itself is love. But it can definitely be a side effect -Rhiannon

i said 'i don't know' because that had become my answer to everything.

I don't know what I thought I'd find by breaking in here.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.

Y tú quién eres? –dijo él. –No me confundas –dije yo. Dice Tristram Shandy VII 33.

Ese material se te ocurre cuando estás borracho? Preguntó un primo de Faulkner.

I wonder whose job it was to assign these sexes in the first place. Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?

Be ye mad, woman?