Quotes About Question

To put God to the question in any other way than by saying, What wilt thou have me to do? is an attempt to compel God to declare himself, or to hasten his work. This probably was the sin of Judas. It is presumption of a kind similar to the making of a stone into bread. It is, as it were, either a forcing of God to act where he has created no need for action, or the making of a case wherein he shall seem to have forfeited his word if he does not act.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.

Did not the statement, You do not exist, contain a logical absurdity?

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it. In this place you could not feel anything, except the pain and the foreknowledge of pain. Besides, was it possible, when you were actually suffering it, to wish for any reason whatever that your own pain should increase? But that question was not answerable yet.

Entonces, ¿hemos recuperado nuevamente lo que teníamos antes? -preguntó Boxer. - Esa es nuestra victoria -agregó Squealer.

We might think of structure as simply: an organizational scheme that allows the story to answer a question it has caused its reader to ask.

We might imagine structure as a form of call-and-response. A question arises organically from the story and then the story, very considerately, answers it. If we want to make good structure, we just have to be aware of what question we are causing the reader to ask, then answer that question.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, "Are we free?" I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

Why would anyone steal a menu?

Henry laughed. He said, "You are more like Grandfather Alden every day, Ben. I only hope Mr. Lee will answer your question, because we all want to know." CHAPTER 2 Benny Hunts for Treasure At last Jessie said, "Let's do the dishes and go for a swim." Violet

If you can do it then why do it?

Just before she Gertrude Stein died she asked, `What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case, what is the question?

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

A poll finds the average opinion of a group. It takes the temperature of a crowd. A swarm focuses a group together, in real time, and has them work together as a system to answer a question instead.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

I received the same kind of question many times. Do I drink? Of course I do. I do what all others do.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.