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Quotes About Question

His mother's expression softens. "Do you need anything?" she asks. For a moment, Craig's heart feels entirely porous. Not because his mother has asked such a monumental question, but because it's such an ordinary one. This is the mother he knows. Do you need anything? As if she were running to Walgreens or the grocery store. As if nothing has changed.
~ David Levithan
You have how many children in your family? the teacher would ask. I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?
~ David Sedaris
You ever been to Tijuana?" he asked. Most of Dupont's stories began with a question and ended with an insatiable woman, buck naked and begging for more.
~ David Sedaris
As a business traveler, you'll likely be met at your destination by someone who asks, "So, how was your flight?" This, as if there are interesting variations and you might answer, "The live orchestra was a nice touch," or "The first half was great, but then they let a baby take over the controls and it got all bumpy." In fact, there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.
~ David Sedaris
Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
~ Dean Koontz
We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.
~ Dean Koontz
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. (1.8.4)
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Pero ¿por qué una virgen es pura y otra mujer no?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I wonder what sound a breaking heart makes?
~ Unknown
What an awful trail! Did you carry me up here? I did, surely, replied he.
~ Zane Grey
To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world.
~ Sheila Heti
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
~ David Johansen
The real question should be, what does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?
~ Wayne Messam
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
~ Bob Schieffer
I guess, just being in a group, I had never thought to question my individual artistry.
~ Kirstin Maldonado
Whether we actually see through a microscope is a question philosopher Ian Hacking raises in one of the most acute criticisms of van Fraassen's skepticism about the reliability of instruments designed to see what the human senses cannot detect. Hacking's essay "Do We See through a Microscope
~ Unknown
This is the position of the disinherited in every age. What must be the attitude toward the rulers, the controllers of political, social, and economic life? This is the question of the Negro in American life. Until he has faced and settled that question, he cannot inform his environment with reference to his own life, whatever may be his preparation or his pretensions.
~ Howard Thurman
You might not be able to answer a question with a question but you can always answer a question with a quote!
~ Hunter Brinkmeier
Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
~ Unknown
In the west, too, the Reich would have to be strengthened. The French would 'have to bleed for that'. But there it was a strategic, not an ethnic, question. 'We must solve the ethnic (völkischen) questions in the east.
~ Ian Kershaw
The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question.
~ Unknown
question they couldn't answer as yet. What mattered to them
~ Ian Rankin
T)ime flies like a mountain stream and who asks a question today may not hear the answer tomorrow.
~ Unknown