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She wondered curiously where she would be when she died.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Maybe God has a house. But not here.
~ Theodore Roethke
And though they clamor endlessly to ask, "Where do you get your ideas?" (a question I have never heard any SF writer worth her or his salt seriously try to answer), the question, "How do you put these ideas together?" (which, with a little thought and analysis, is sometimes answerable) is much rarer.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
The moment isn't a piece of time; it's a question. The moment comes when you look up and see your life stretching out for seventy more years. And there, in front of you, like a giant roadblock, is the question: Is this life good enough for the next seventy years? But maybe that's the easy question. The next logical question-- Can I live like this? --is the killer. Because it isn't a yes or no kind of question. It's a do or die kind of question. I avoid moments.
~ Karen Brichoux
She's had the moment. A moment isn't a piece of time, it's a question. A realization. A trauma. The moment comes when you look up and see your life stretching out for seventy more years….Is this life good enough for the next seventy years?
~ Karen Brichoux
When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But you're not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?
~ Karen Chance
Prince Philip asked a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, in 1995, 'How do you keep your natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?
~ Karen Dolby
What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There's really only one question: would you rather have died?" That's an easy one for me. I'd never rather that. Not under any circumstances. I'll take survival at any price. Always.
~ Karen Marie Moning
That the deadly bottom-feeders of the dark Fae give Jericho Barrons a wide berth perturbs me immensely but I'd promise to never ask him another question about it again, if only he'd cut a swath through them right now and save me. I shouted his name until my throat hurt, but no knight-errant rushed to my rescue.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.
~ Karen Tei Yamashita
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
~ Karen Thompson Walker
I, however, believe that there is at least one philosophical problem, It is the problem of cosmology
~ Karl Popper
Location is a magical word. I used to believe it was related to cancer, that's one of the cancer questions. Where is the location? I think of location as being a word that falls somewhere between cancer and real estate.
~ Kate Braverman
Do not believe too quickly!
~ Kate Grenville
Prostitution] is ultimately an experience we all share. But diluted. I think many of us, maybe all of us, are really selling and not knowing we're doing it. The question lies than in who among us could stand, or will have to stand on Broadway tonight.
~ Kate Millett
Pre-analytic vision. Worldview. Paradigm. Frame. These are cousin concepts. What matters more than the one you choose to use is to realise that you have one in the first place, because then you have the power to question and change it.
~ Kate Raworth
Lord, will those who are saved be few?" ... Jesus' answer seems so noncommittal, so evasive ... Strive to enter by the narrow door (Luke 13:23f.) ... this evasiveness is only apparent ... This is the answer to this question ... this question has been answered, once for all time.
~ G C Berkouwer
Over and over the question addressed to Jesus arises in the history of the church: 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' Jesus' answer seems so non-committal, so evasive: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Luke 13:23f.). But this evasiveness is only apparent. This is the answer to this question. As long as we see only in a mirror, in riddles, many questions will remain unanswered, But this question has been answered, once for all time.
~ G C Berkouwer
What is your urgent business, Sir Archie?" the king asked. "A lady is in the case, I warrant me. Whenever a young knight has urgent business, be sure that a lady is in question.
~ G. A. HENTY
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
~ G. K. Chesterton
I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You know the best thing about Donkey Kong ?" Sadie asked. "That it's named for the villain? The innovative use of barrels as weapons?" "The necktie," she said. "It's brilliant design. Without it, the question of his dick would always be hanging out there ." "Literally.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx, should you take a weapon?" This is the question of a serious gamer. A gamer should never enter a potential combat situation without checking one's inventory and confirming the availability of a weapon.
~ Gabrielle Zevin