Quotes About Questioning

Tell us, cat!

So, Frank said. Your name isn't Sammy? Leo scowled. What kind of question is that? Nothing, Frank said quickly. I just— Nothing.

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

Was I really such a terrible mother?' she asked Bertie. 'Why the past tense?' Bertie said. Sow and reap.

Why not?" Mrs. Scaife said, navigating her way back to the sofa and dropping anchor ("Ouf") on the salmon damask.

What on earth was she doing with her life? Could she just get up and leave?

One answer to the question Who is a transsexual? might well be Anyone who admits it. A more political answer might, Anyone whose performance of gender calls into question the construct of gender itself.

Personally, I think no question containing either/or deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Edna lived a dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions

the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the possibility of happy endings?

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? The world cannot be changed, said Gloria. The world is what the world is and has forever been. No, said Leo Matienne softly, I will not believe that. For here is Peter standing before us, asking us to make it something different.

Never enough. We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

What you giving me them shifty-eyed looks for?

She jerked to life, her eyes wide open. "Why did that woman give me away?" Then it all began to pour out. Why had she been given away? We'd never told her she was a foundling.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

I told him the details of my sex life with Bataille most likely to arouse the desires dormant in him that I desired. Soon he began questioning me about the acts he found most disgusting and so most wanted to commit.

But…what if he pretended to be engaged? His mother would feel free to marry the man she loved. How about if I introduce her to my fiancée? Think that would do it? Jim started, then dourly eyed the six chocolate hats Davis had lined up on the counter. Why haven't we heard anything about her until now? Who is she?

Why do you need to turn everything on its head, Charles", he used to ask him, half annoyed and half wondering, "isn't the world beautiful and harmonious as it is?

What would happen, I wonder, if I stopped questioning and doubting what I do, stopped judging my own efforts, stopped critiquing the sentences I write, and begin instead to simply trust the process- not just the ups and downs of my work, but everything else as well, the endlessly evolving process of life itself?

But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira?

What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour?" he asked. A not unreasonable question.