Question Quotes

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

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

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

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.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

Question everything.

I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.