Quotes with question

  • That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
  • Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
  • If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
  • It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
  • 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.
  • I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
  • If we could all rephrase the question from What was your most embarrassing moment? to What was your most embarrassing year? Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.
  • 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.
  • It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
  • Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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  • Francis Bacon A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Catton Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Joseph Addison The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Voltaire When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler 'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ezra Pound 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
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • George W. Bush A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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