Question Quotes

"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not"

George Shearing, Musician

"I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions"

Edward Norton, Actor

"There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise"

Elia Kazan, Director

"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question"

David Korten, Activist

"Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"To do or not to do... that is the question"

Jeff Rich, Explorer

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love"

Edith Stein, Saint

"I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Think for yourself and question authority"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question"

William Banting, Celebrity

"The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future"

Francois Jacob, Scientist

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

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