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Quotes About Question

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
~ Jim Wallis
People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'
~ Russell Crowe
I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me.
~ Miranda Otto
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
~ Jane Smiley
I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
~ Evan Davis
What do any of us really know about love?
~ Raymond Carver
Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. Why don't you dance?
~ Raymond Carver
drank a little more of the tequila and made a face. "Did anybody invent this stuff on purpose?
~ Raymond Chandler
Is it a true story?" Sorel had asked Fraydel. "S'iz an emesa mysah?" (p. 100)
~ Rebecca Goldstein Mazel
Do you realize how angry you sound?" must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
~ Renata Adler
bold as to ask a question, miss?" In the process of removing the dratted veil from her head, Lou sighed patiently. Though she was certain Jaynes had played a part of spy for her exasperating overprotective father, Lou had
~ Rhonda Nelson
Eyes darting nervously between the road and the rearview mirror, her timid driver cleared his throat. "May I be so bold as to ask a question, miss?" In the process of removing
~ Rhonda Nelson
When I asked once at a medical conference if anyone knew of an organism that enjoyed perpetual growth, someone said cancer and pointed out that it eventually kills its host.
~ Ricardo Semler
Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams
And, Freedom, was I free?
~ Richard Adams
If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?
~ Richard Bach
I sighed. "Yeah. OK. Forget the question." "I'll forget it. My question is, can you?" He looked at me as though he hadn't a care in the world.
~ Richard Bach
If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: 'Have they discovered evolution yet?
~ Richard Dawkins
It was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer.
~ Richard Dawkins
But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can?
~ Richard Dawkins
Nevertheless, it is a common error, which we shall meet again, to leap from the premise that the question of God's existence is in principle unanswerable to the conclusion that his existence and his non-existence are equiprobable.
~ Richard Dawkins
But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor the Oxford astronomer really believed that theologians have any expertise that enables them to answer questions that are too deep for science.
~ Richard Dawkins
The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet- a decided one. So also is the truth or falsehood of every one of the miracle stories that religions rely upon to impress multitudes of the faithful.
~ Richard Dawkins
even if the question is a real one, does the fact that science cannot answer it imply that religion can.
~ Richard Dawkins