Quotes About Question

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

Who knows whether we are right in saying that the sufferings of the divine-human Jesus have the "infinite worth" demanded by the scheme? All such speculations are really quite beyond the limits of our knowing. They are at best conjecture, which for many people, as history shows too plainly, only calls the gospel into question.

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

The first question which we had to decide had nothing to do with the occurrence or non-occurrence of any occult episode in the boy's stream of consciousness; it was the question whether or not he had the required higher-level competence, that of knowing how to tie reef-knots.

et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?

A Å¡ta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?

What would it be like without Him?

Why? Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

It's always a question of the human heart, isn't it? How do we live? What do we do? How do we know what's right or wrong? I came here to pray for guidance, I suppose. I feel a little lost, and maybe more than a little afraid.

Sono fantasmi se sono la felicità?

Do you mind if I'm naked?" "I hardly expected you in full evening dress.

But sometimes you have to question even the best and greatest. Cookery is quite a journey. Take nothing for granted.

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?

Do I like my coffee black? There are other colors?

Out of the deep and endless universe There came a greater Mystery, a Shape, A Something sad, inscrutable, august— One to confront the worlds and question them.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature, and among them man is but one — perhaps the most miserable of all, because he is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?"

Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.

I was electrified by this theory, I could feel my footsteps dancing and I begin to laugh. I was perfectly aware that I had only added another question to all the others, but it was new, and that, in the absurd world in which I lived, and still do live, was happiness.

Perhaps we shouldn't try to answer the questions now - let's just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it's in the way the imagination gets busy when the question is at work.

We must bring light to the darkened room, Maisie. Maurice's voice echoed down the years, and it was as if he were with her. Knowledge is the light. Information is the light. Come out of the darkness one lamp at a time. Paint your picture of what came to pass question by question—and remember, some are never meant to be answered because the response closes the door to knowledge you most want and need.

We must bring light to the darkened room, Maisie. Maurice's voice echoed down the years, and it was as if he were with her. Knowledge is the light. Information is the light. Come out of the darkness one lamp at a time. Paint your picture of what came to pass question by question—and remember, some are never meant to be answered because the response closes the door to knowledge you most want and

Maisie placed her hands together in front of her face, just touching her nose, as if in prayer. "Let me ask you another question. What value do you place on your marriage?" "What sort of question is that?" "A question to be answered, if I am to take on this investigation." "A high value. Vows are meant to be honored." "And what value do you place on understanding, compassion, forgiveness?

It had always interested her, that physically gazing out at a landscape, even if that landscape offered a cluster of town buildings, could provide a broader view of the possibilities inspired by a question. She did the same thing herself, when something troubled her.