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What is any public question but a conglomeration of private interests? What is any newspaper article but an expression of the views taken by one side? Truth! it takes an age to ascertain the truth of any question! The idea of Tom Towers talking of public motives and purity of purpose! Why, it wouldn't give him a moment's uneasiness to change his politics to-morrow, if the paper required it.
~ Anthony Trollope
Then she asked herself the fatal question, was she in love with Reginald Morton? I do not think that she answered herself in the affirmative, but she became more and more sure that she could never marry Larry Twentyman.
~ Anthony Trollope
It had been asserted so often that the disestablishment of the Church was only a question of time, that the intelligence of the country had gradually so learned to regard it. Who had said so, men did not know and did not inquire; — but the words were spoken everywhere.
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXXIII 'IS IT TANTI?
~ Anthony Trollope
What is any public question but a conglomeration of private interests? What is any newspaper article but an expression of the views taken by one side? Truth! it takes an age to ascertain the truth of any question! The idea of Tom Towers talking of public motives and purity of purpose!
~ Anthony Trollope
That specially personal question which had been asked he did not answer at all.
~ Anthony Trollope
Catholic Emancipation, that appalling prospect which would cause him to be damned for breaking his sacred vow, was prominent among them. This malevolent obsession itself was at the time more relevant to the Catholic Question than what the nature of the King's madness actually was.
~ Antonia Fraser
It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others.
~ Antonio Gramsci
What surf Of what far sea upon what unknown ground Troubles forever with that asking sound? What surge is this whose question never ceases?
~ Archibald MacLeish
There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Or is the meaning of life no longer 42?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The Prince's dark eyes narrowed with amusement, though his mouth stayed solemn--I knew I'd seen that expression before. "Please. You have only to ask." "I don't want a thing. It was more a question, and that is: If you can eat like this every day, why aren't you fatter than five oxen?" Bran set his goblet down, his eyes wide. "Burn it, Mel, I was just thinking the very same!
~ Sherwood Smith
God! Whose hand was I holding?
~ Shirley Jackson
Sister's gone to school, I said to Sally. Ah, said Sally. And will she come home again?
~ Shirley Jackson
The great question that has never been answered , and which I have not yet been able to answer , despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul , is What does a woman want?
~ Sigmund Freud
Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.
~ Sigmund Freud
me hallaba sumido en la contemplación de la encantadora lejanía, cuando a mi espalda resonó la pregunta: «El señor es médico, ¿verdad?», que al principio no creí fuera dirigida a mí: tan olvidado de mí mismo estaba.
~ Sigmund Freud
The overwhelming experience of tragedy is a disorientation expressed in one bewildered and frequently repeated question: What shall I do?
~ Simon Critchley
The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
~ Simon Wiesenthal