Question Quotes

"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

"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

"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK"

Allan Sloan

"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

"Question everything"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"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

"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

"The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, 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

"Great questions make great reporting"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

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

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation"

James Nathan Miller

"One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation"

Janez Drnovsek, Statesman

"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

"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

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

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"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

"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"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

"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth"

Peter Abelard, Philosopher

"To be, or not to be: that is the question"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked"

Voltaire, Writer

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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