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Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd:I strove against the stream and all in vain:Let the great river take me to the main:No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;Ask me no more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development
~ Alfred Whitehead
We have tried all things, and found all wanting
~ Algernon Blackwood
Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.
~ Ali al-Rida
the question of racism and its scientific basis had to be confronted at an international level as part of the attempt to build a successful post-fascist world order.
~ Ali Rattansi
What's the answer, according to you, to life's mysteries? she says. The answer is a question, the man says still sitting uninvited to her table. And the question is, Into whose myth do we choose to buy?
~ Ali Smith
Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That's actually my question too, Elisabeth said.
~ Ali Smith
Knowing that our happiness Might never come again; I, not forgetting, "Till death us do part," Was outrageously happy With death in my heart. Lovers in peacetime With fifty years to live, Have time to tease and quarrel And question what to give; But lovers in wartime Better understand The fullness of living, With death close at hand.
~ Alice Duer Miller
What can we do about our world? Why do you all make me struggle?
~ Alice Notley
I don't know why it was a tragedy, the world.
~ Alice Notley
And why was I (so) fated?
~ Alice Notley
examining the whole horizonless question of desire
~ Alice Oswald
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
~ Alison Bechdel
Any good photo is a secret of a secret. It's the unknowable glimpsed within a glimpse, the puzzle in plain sight. It's the question that makes us look for an answer we're never going to find. An open case. An unsolved mystery. A good still is never still - it's restive, alive.
~ Alison MacLeod
Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.
~ Ally Carter
But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet." "I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced. He smiled a Kat. "What about you?" "Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question.
~ Ally Carter
Is Joe your father, Zach?' I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to. 'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.
~ Ally Carter
When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, "This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry.
~ Ally Carter
Cammie, where did you get that necklace?
~ Ally Carter
Taccone smiled. "And you've come here alone," he said, but it was really a question. "Now, I could say yes, and have you think I'm lying." She took a step forward, ran her hand across the baby-soft leather of a wingback chair. "Or I could say no, and have you think I'm bluffing. So maybe I'll just say . . . no comment.
~ Ally Carter
A question is not a supplication, an entreaty, nor a velleity for knowledge just put out in the air; it is already an order, a command. (Beggars, the destitute, pupils, factory workers, enlisted soldiers, prisoners, and patients have no right to question; they can only entreat.?) A question commands a certain focus of attention, a selection of resources on hand, a certain type of language. It lays down a direction; it imposes a directive to think further down a certain track.
~ Alphonso Lingis
One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
~ Alvin Plantinga
So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?
~ Alyson Noel
Love is irrational. Nonsensical. Makes you feel things that seem wildly inappropriate when you consider the surrounding circumstances. And yet you shouldn't ever question it, shouldn't ever doubt it. You should just accept it for the gift it is.
~ Alyson Noel