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The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
~ Robin DiAngelo
As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'
~ Simon Rattle
Baron Humboldt asked Jefferson, 'Why are these libels allowed? Why is not this libelous journal suppressed, or its editor at least, fined and imprisoned?' The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. 'Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of our press, questioned, show this paper, and tell where you found it.
~ Jon Meacham
Baron Humboldt asked Jefferson, Why are these libels allowed? Why is not this libelous journal suppressed, or its editor at least, fined and imprisoned? The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of our press, questioned, show this paper, and tell where you found it.
~ Jon Meacham
She was one of New Prospect's original hippies, a walking yes to the question Are You Experienced?
~ Jonathan Franzen
Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing?
~ Jonathan Lethem
Response to the question by The Atlantic: Who is the Greatest Fictional Character of All Time? God is the author of all the other characters, and of all the other authors of all the other characters, unless he doesn't exist--and said existence, in its disputation, is one of the greatest ongoing narratives in human storytelling.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I am a mother, she thought—not an answer to the question being asked, and no more her ultimate ambition than happiness, but her ultimate identity.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
if I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Cutting down that tree was my last war! I asked him who won, which I thought was a nice question, because it would let him say that he won, and feel proud. He said, The ax won! It's always that way!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
A je?li kto? ci? zapyta kim jeste??, to odpowiedz Ja jestem Nikt - jak rzek? niegdy? Polifemowi Odys.
~ Joseph Brodsky
If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't
~ A.A. Milne
First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice.
~ A.E. Housman
I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?
~ A.M. Turing
Is that so wrong?' he asked his closest advisors. 'Is it so wrong of me to walk the ways of a visionary, a seeker, rather than a simple soldier? What is it within my father that renders him so thirsty for blood? Why is destruction the answer to every question he is asked?' Kor Phaeron clutched Lorgar's shoulder tighter. 'Because, my son, he is gravely flawed. He is an imperfect god.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
~ Aaron Howard
What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.
~ Abigail Thomas
Big Ammachi asks Baby Mol the question, the one she has asked every night for over a decade now, a question that counts on Baby Mol's gift of prophecy.
~ Abraham Verghese
My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.
~ Adalbert Stifter
Lowell's observations of Martian canals had become a joke in the scientific community.25 In the early 1950s, the possibility of life and intelligence in the universe remained a question that few scientists were seriously considering.
~ Adam Frank
Are we still evolving?' is a question that geneticists get asked a lot. Here is the answer: yes.
~ Adam Rutherford
A movement that has great ends to achieve must carefully guard against the danger of losing contact with the masses of people... Every question encountered must be examined primarily from this viewpoint, and the decision to be made must always be accordingly.
~ Adolf Hitler