Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one’s creativity and reveal more possibilities.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

I trust you. Those are the last words my father said before he left. That means that every decision I make, I would have to question myself whether it was the right one. I can...

Men wouldn’t lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.

It’s a thin line between what we’re calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you’re supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how...

Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic’s foundations.

One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a prayer before eating: God is kind, God is good, And we thank him...

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

I think it’s my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA’s overall charter.

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What’s it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where...

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man’s innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island...

No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.

Everybody in the world is – is ready for liberty. It’s a question of how you do it.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

Question for your life: Would you rather be the first female U.S. President, the first woman to walk on the moon, or the first woman to be courted by two clones who looked like Christian...

I’ll wait until your mouth is full of food before I ask you a question. That’s just the kind of gentleman I am.

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid...

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there’s a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we’re seeing goes against what people always believed...

One of Mom’s favorite passages from Gilead was: “This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another...

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?

Funny how “question” contains the word “quest” inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

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?

It’s true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don’t know if I’d just ask him one question. I’d probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers’ Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually...

you ask me a question I’ll give you an answer…but don’t look at me when I say something you don’t want to hear.

If you don’t know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on...

The answer to the ancient question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

I sometimes lie awake at night wishing I had all the answers. But I guess only God has all of them, while I only have one answer: I do. Now I just have to wait...

Question for your life: If we were to kiss passionately for 30 minutes, would you refill my oxygen tank in the process?

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it’s been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people’s motives. Is it just because I’m...

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish – whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Politics:Lies about the truth,or the truth about lies?

To tell you the truth, it’s a complex piece, so I can’t really answer your question at present.

I would just question things… It would infuriate my parents… That I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something ’cause I’d ask them why. And then I’d consider whether that response made sense given...

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would,...

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.