Quotes About Questioning

Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God's gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?

but Mackey and Kell had asked Stevie straight out if any of his male relatives had the last name Jefferson, and he couldn't think of one.

My armor's tarnished and I shot your horse—I think you can skip the dress. What do you want to hear?

What have I ever done to you…." There it went, two octaves, and he wrenched it back under his control. "What have I ever done to you that you would hurt me like that?

Jesus fuck a rabbit, Ernie, the hell is wrong with you?

Christ! What are patterns for?

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

How long have you been here?" "I don't know. You just stole my watch," he said with a shrug.

Sometimes we don't question things. Sometimes we just accept them. That's faith, Piper, and that's what's required here.

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

Ella hadn't thought before to question her mother's happiness-but how many of her mottoes and devices had been antidotes to despair.

anti-Jewish material is repeated, because no one questions it.

Os tempos modernos surgem justamente com esse questionamento sobre o real e o imaginário, essa desconfiança em relação a certezas que vinham sendo aceitas como verdades e que o espírito humano começava a desafiar.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Great doubts, deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom -

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God.

Sur le point de m'en aller, je veux lui poser une question qui résume toutes les autres, une question qu'il n'y a que moi pour poser, sans doute: "Qui êtes-vous?" Et elle, sans hésiter: "Je suis l'âme errante.

Who are you?" And she, without a moment's hesitation. "I am the soul in limbo.

Surely this is no more unreasonable than asking some saint or divinity what one should do.

Who goes there? Is it you, Nadja? Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?

Qui vive? Est-ce vous, Nadja? Est-il vrai que l'au-delà, tout l'au-delà soit dans cette vie? Je ne vous entends pas. Qui vive? Est-ce moi seul? Est-ce moi-même?

Qu'entendez-vous par : l'intelligence ? - En général ? - Oui. Ferral réfléchit. - La possession des moyens de contraindre les choses ou les hommes. Gisors sourit imperceptiblement. Chaque fois qu'il posait cette question, son interlocuteur, quel qu'il fût, répondait par le portrait de son désir, ou par l'image qu'il se faisait de lui-même.