Top 1200 Fundamental Question Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

For me, the youth academy has a fundamental role in every club.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me if I'm a black writer, or just a writer who happens to be black, I tend to say that it's either a dumb question or a question which happens to be dumb.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

We figured the interesting question for them is, "Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them?" So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.

The Champions League is the most important competition; it's fundamental to be involved in it.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.

A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.

The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.

I often suggest that my students ask themselves the simple question: Do I know how to live? Do I know how to eat? How much to sleep? How to take care of my body? How to relate to other people? ... Life is the real teacher, and the curriculum is all set up. The question is: are there any students?

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a young black boy that Solomon Northup gives in 12 Years A Slave?" He describes the young black 14-year-old boy as "blacker than any crow." You have to question if he is using that metaphorically or as a descriptive?

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide.

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.