Quotes About Questions

We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

However, if you're navigating the tension between your Bible and your life, or Jesus' ancient ideas and the modern wayward church, or God's kingdom on earth and reality, then welcome. Sometimes it's better to wade through murky waters with a fellow explorer than with an authority. Questions can still be investigated with another learner instead of with one who has only answers.

Three questions," I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. "One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?

I was comfortable with silence, comfortable with letting questions go unanswered. Sometimes it was my best tool for making a person say more.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. —Rainer Maria Rilke

The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

Have you seen it...Singin' in the rain, have you seen it? ...His answer was all in his face, scornful and baffled at once. Money makes me ask stupid questions. He wanted it, of course, because someone else didn't have it. Debbie Reynolds dies in the end, I told him.

He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.

it was always that way with the dead; they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions. All we could do was remember them, as much as we could remember them, whether it was accurate or not.

People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

Le domande più interessanti rimangono domande. Avvolgono un mistero. A ogni risposta, si deve associare un forse. Sono solo le domande senza interesse ad avere una risposta definitiva.

One important aspect of it was his willingness to accept that many questions may be unresolved even after our best efforts, and our answers may remain incomplete.

I heard from many girls, just as many inquiries were made by boys, and men and women.

Nature holds all the answers — go outside and ask some questions — open your heart and listen to the response!

And for many of the other questions, the answers I received were cloaked in the sort of highly polished public relations vagueness that makes responses so measured and couched in nuance that they are essentially meaningless.

Regardless of the outcome, the decisions linger. As one official put it, "Ethical questions will put scars on your soul that you can never get rid of.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. —Naguib Mahfouz

Okay, we know that you are all at the age when your peers start to ask certain questions, and in this town, everybody is going to make certain assumptions about us politically, but we need you to know something.

Endings in real life come about with every question answered. People change, people leave, people get sick.

I had conceived of lovemaking as a sort of asking and answering of questions, but with us it only led to further questions, until we seemed to be locked in a philosophical debate. Instead of the proverbial sadness after sex, I felt something like a semantic despair.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.