Question Quotes

"This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed"

Thomas Harrison

"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being"

Tom Robbins, Author

"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching"

Albert Maltz, Author

"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding"

John Lennon, Musician

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war"

James Madison, President

"I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man"

Megan Fox, Actress

"It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question"

Brian Herbert, Author

"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question"

Willard Scott, Entertainer

"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important"

Mark Udall, Politician

"I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings"

Paul Simon, Musician

"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own"

Robert Welch

"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

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