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Quotes About Questions

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
of the time and listen eighty percent of the time, and that twenty percent ought to be questions to get the customer talking more.
~ Napoleon Hill
You may ask any question. Some, however, must be answered by silence
~ Neal Shusterman
You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.
~ Neal Shusterman
You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.
~ Neal Shusterman
She has no way of knowing that what occurred in his crate was a reenactment of what happened in her own, and in almost every other container on the plane. Fear, misgivings, questions rarely asked, and stories rarely told. The details are different, of course, as are the players, but the gist is the same. No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.
~ Neal Shusterman
The unexpected hope of freedom is enticing yet terrifying. His life here is awful but tolerable. What would his life be out there, in a world that will see him as a monster? He could live alone, a recluse at the edge of civilization, bothering no one, and no one bothering him. Is that the life he wants? These are questions he can't answer - all he knows is freedom is desirable above all things.
~ Neal Shusterman
Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.
~ Neal Shusterman
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.
~ Charles Bukowski
Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas.
~ Charles Bukowski
Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don't actually tell you anything you don't already know, or they answer every question except the one you're asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where you want to go today. And wikis are worse.
~ Charles Stross Cory Doctorow
We would parachute in like typical asshole Americans and be completely clueless about what kind of trip we were actually on, asking questions like, "When do we start shooting the animals? Where is the freshest sushi? When do we meet Aretha Franklin, and where are the squash courts?" I'd also insist on hunting live lobster and killing it with my handgun.
~ Chelsea Handler
We think we'll have questions for God when we get to heaven, but when we actually see him, we'll understand it's not about getting our questions answered because the questions won't be important. We'll finally be with God. So I would just look at her. And if she let me, I would hug her. For a long time." I
~ Chris Fabry
When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
~ Brendan Sexton III
If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.
~ Dominic Cummings
I've found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important - a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
Regardless of approach, the past holds something valuable for all of us. It is literally the root of who we are, physically through our actual ancestors and culturally in establishing the foundations for our current beliefs and practices in religious, social, domestic, and political arenas. The same ancients that we study were themselves drawn to their own pasts, often asking questions similar to the ones we pose today about our past.
~ Thomas Van Nortwick
You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
I've never had to find a hard question in my life," she countered tartly. "They've always found me first.
~ Timothy Zahn
Two little girls who knew what nobody else in the world knew—how not to ask questions. How to believe what had to be believed. There was politeness in that reluctance and generosity as well. Is your mother sick too? No, she dances all night. Oh—and an understanding nod.
~ Toni Morrison
The history of the 20th century West is in large measure the history of efforts to answer these questions. The responses proved spectacularly successful:
~ Tony Judt
Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions.
~ Kevin Kelly
Some people think technology has the answers.
~ Kevin Mitnick
It is so easy to get entangled in all the "purpose" questions about life.… You want to know God's will for your life? Easy. You pray, you listen, you do…. This is the wild simplicity of our God.
~ Kim Meeder