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Question Quotes


"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."


"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."


"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."


"But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat."


"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."


"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."


"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."


"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."


"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors."


"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."


"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."


"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."


"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."


"What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why."


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


"All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer."


"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."


"I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered."


"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."


"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."


"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."


"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."


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


"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."


"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."


"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."


"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed."


"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."


"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."


"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."


"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."


"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."


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


"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions."


"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."


"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."


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


"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
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