Top 1200 Asking Too Many Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

I don't want to live in Los Angeles. The city depresses me! It is too flat. There are too many cars.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.

I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got older and started asking questions about my grandparents, the origins of our middle and last names. We were kind of textbook Pinoys. A lot of the Filipino stereotypes that were joked about by me and my friends rang very true with my family.

There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

Good questions inform, great questions transform

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

We're long on conversation in our house. Therefore, I don't like going to restaurants too much. There are too many distractions.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.

We're musicians and despite that, we get more political questions than musical questions, which kind of irks me.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

I have done too many movies but too little variety.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.