Top 1200 Fundamental Question Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

I'm hoping my play opens up conversations, I hope it makes people question textbooks, I hope it makes #OscarsSoWhite and #HollywoodSoWhite question things. I hope my play sparks conversation between Latin kids and Latin parents and people start doing their own due diligence as well, I think it's everyone's responsibility.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

Central to the effective functioning of early capitalism was the fundamental principle of trusting and being trusted.

Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world. The question is not whether they know the Word of God.... The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are getting famous now. Are you going to be riding around in limousines, doing drugs, and sleeping with beautiful women?" And I was a precocious young man, and my snappy comeback to that cheerful question was, "We're willing to sleep with beautiful women." But no part of the question was in the article.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not to bring awareness to it, and struggle to put an end to it.

There is nothing more fundamental for public workers to know if they are going to be partly laid off.