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Quotes About Questions

his whole body itching with the desire to ask questions. I need some tape to put over my mouth, he thought.
~ James Dashner
Bueno, es medio estúpido mandarme a un lugar donde nada tiene sentido y no contestar mis preguntas.
~ James Dashner
happened to her? What had happened to them? Where were
~ James Dashner
still have scars that need healing, wounds that may never completely go away. And I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the suffering I've seen. But at least I'm open and willing to have God show me the way. I listen closely to what he has to tell me. I know he helped me stay alive for a reason, and each day I strive to live out that reason.
~ James L. Garlow
Is it for miraclesWe live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my roomLike a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters: "Whyask questions?" or, "What are the questions you wish to ask?"
~ James Schuyler
was something different about his genetic structure. His ex-lover Megan Reed had once told him he was a 'super-compatible', a rare human anomaly who could accept augs without the yoke of the anti-rejection drug to keep him whole. Jensen was still undecided if that was a gift or a curse, and he couldn't stop himself from wondering if this unique quality was some loose thread left behind by other unanswered questions from his past. Questions
~ James Swallow
Gather firsthand information, ask questions.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask. ... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.
~ Douglas Adams
People often ask where I get my ideas from, sometimes as often as eighty-seven times a day. This is a well-known hazard for writers, and the correct response to the question is first to breathe deeply, steady your heartbeat, fill your mind with peaceful, calming images of birdsong and buttercups in spring meadows, and then try to say, It's very interesting you ask that... before breaking down and start to whimper uncontrollably.
~ Douglas Adams
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was yes.
~ Douglas Adams
He instituted this, er, Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realized I could then take the rest of my career off.
~ Douglas Adams
And when I hear their questions, do you hear questions? What do their voices mean to you? Perhaps you just think they're singing songs to you. He reflected on this, and saw the flaw in the supposition. Perhaps they are singing songs to you, he said, and I just think they're asking me questions. He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
~ Douglas Adams
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are: Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
~ Douglas Adams
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes.
~ Douglas Adams
The good people of Kibbencook, indeed all human beings, want answers, not questions, from their religious leaders. No matter.
~ Douglas Preston
The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong's work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered.
~ Douglas Preston
There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.
~ Agatha Christie
Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind. Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells -- order and method. I know all about it.
~ Agatha Christie
Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.
~ Aimee Friedman
The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven't been asked.
~ Alan Alda
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~ Alan Dundes
If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.
~ Richard N. Haass
'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.
~ Amy Robach