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Quotes About Questions

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.
~ Brian Fallon
As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
~ Lucy Powell
Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
~ James Wolcott
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
~ Daniel Dae Kim
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
~ Serge Lang
You can divide the world into the two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Le persone, per la maggior parte, considerano insolubili i problemi la ci soluzione non va loro a genio. Così continuano senza sosta a fare domande, anche se non hanno affatto bisogno di avere risposte sincere...
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Philosophers wrestling with the big questions of life are no longer alone. Now scientists are struggling to define life as they manipulate it, look for it on other planets, and even create it in test tubes.
~ SETH BORENSTEIN
Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.
~ Shane Claiborne
We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
~ Shane Koyczan
It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.
~ Shane Koyczan
For each full day you stick it out with the Kowalskis, you get to ask me one question." Keri, unlike Joe, did have a poker face and she made sure it was in place while she turned his words over in her head. "When you say the Kowalskis, you mean…" "The entire family." The dimples were about as pronounced as she'd ever seen them. "Every one of them. "Her first thought was oh shit. Her second, to wonder if People was hiring.
~ Shannon Stacey
We are perpetually invited to participate more consciously in the dep motion of faith, learning to wonder in a larger frame and awakening to bigger questions and larger dreams" p49
~ Sharon Daloz Parks
I figured the teacher offered me the candy to shut up Claire and Molly and to make me feel good that I accidentally got all the questions right. But it was no accident. I knew them all. Every single one.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Mentre guardavo il film mi domandai che cosa avremmo chiesto al mago, se io e il mio cane fossimo stati trasportati ad Oz. Mmm, vediamo un po'. Cervello? Ne ho da vendere. Coraggio? Cubik non ha paura di niente! Un cuore? Io e la mia cucciola abbiamo un cuore grande così. Che cosa avrei chiesto, allora? Mi piacerebbe cantare come il Leone Codardo e danzare come l'Uomo di Latta. Nessuno dei due lo faceva molto bene, ma a me sarebbe bastato.
~ Sharon M. Draper
It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?
~ Shaun Tan
There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.
~ Peter McWilliams
Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.
~ Rands
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
~ Fredrik Bajer
If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.
~ George W. Bush
But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.
~ James McBride
Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.
~ Deyth Banger