Quotes About Question

Within fifteen minutes the boy's eyes had drifted open. Surprise dawned on his face. "Who are you?" he asked weakly. "The Christmas fairy," Ian said. "You're going to be okay, kid.

There is a type of problem in organic chemistry called a retrosynthesis. You are presented with a compound that does not occur in nature, and your job is to work backward, step by step, and ascertain how it came to exist—what sort of conditions led to its eventual creation. When you are finished, if done correctly, the equation can be read normally, making it impossible to distinguish the question from the answer.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

La pregunta que nos asalta es: ¿sólo podemos escapar del determinismo gracias al azar de una vida sin sentido?

It's extremely difficult—and socially risky—to question an established model that many people believe and to start building a new model from scratch.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

How'd you get that scar? Attacked by an eagle in Afghanistan. I was kind of looking forward to that exchange.

In the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened

Terminal* is a harsh word when used in the context of death and not one we'd ever uttered aloud. But according to Webster's, it's also a place people pass through on their way to somewhere else. Deborah knew her "somewhere else" was heaven. She was just hoping the rain was delayed. I scooped a tear off her cheek and tried to slip around her question. "We're all terminal," I said, smiling gently. "None of us makes it out of here alive.

A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate. She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?

Must colour change?

Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?

Went outside to answer Snowy Owl's question, Who? Owl not satisfied with answer.

Mystery is not a passive condition. To see a thing so perfectly what it is-- doesn't it make you want to hold it, to marvel, to touch, its answered question?

She accepted, now, the great gift of the music as a substitute for all she had lost. Still, one question sometimes nagged. Had the devil in its original tempter's form returned her art, or had God? And furthermore, what did it matter?

Answers were temporary; the question was constant. Women knew that better than men, she thought. Maybe it had to do with the way moon took hold of their bodies, pulling the like the tides...In that way women learned that life was a mystery, and that something bigger than they were was in charge.

Work?" Sixtus asked.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

In cuor di donna quanto dura amore? (Ore) -Ed ella non mi amò quant'io l'amai? (Mai) -Or chi sei tu sì ti lagni meco? (Eco)

The rooted pathways offered here are not meant as a definitive list but as waymarkers and fortification for all of us seeking our unique, bewildering, awkward way through the essential question of how to live on our broken, imperiled, beloved earth. It is the question Thoreau asked. The one that Mary Oliver, who passed just before I wrote these words, has perhaps framed most beautifully: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Everything is a question of sleep, says Cocteau, but he forgets the shark, which does not. Anxiety is vigilant.

I'm sure people did question whether Italian printers were quite the right people to legislate on the meaning of everything; but on the other hand, resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

That's why they came up with the emoticon, too—the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne.