Top 1200 Big Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

There are always going to be questions asked when there is competition. As long as you can answer those questions, then you are deserving of a place.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

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

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

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

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

I do think there are some big questions here about approach, about how people are treated. I was brought up in very challenging areas.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers to me. So my interest is in the big questions more than it is in storytelling.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

Words that make questions may not be questions at all.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

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

Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present scientific knowledge. In common parlance: `The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

It feels like one family - JAY-Z's one call away for any advice, any questions. He's a real big homie.

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more women involved, I mean that what women are best at is asking questions. Women ask questions over and over again. It drives men nuts. Women tend to ask the detailed questions; they want to know the answers.

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.

If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, the big question was why, over the centuries, the millennia, has growth been speeding up?

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

Good questions inform, great questions transform

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

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

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We receive their questions, it's important that the world asks questions.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

There's always going to be questions asked where there is competition, and as long as you can answer those questions, then you're deserving of a place.

The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.