Question Quotes

"Never answer a question from a farmer"

"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance"

"Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake"

Barack Obama, President

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"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, Writer

"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

"I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women"

John Bright, Politician

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Great questions make great reporting"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question"

Arthur Guiterman, Comedian

"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised"

Carl Bernstein, Journalist

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master"

Joy Page, Actress

"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul"

Jones Very, Poet

"The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities"

Ben Nelson, Politician

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