Top 1200 Hard Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

For the rest of my life, I realise people are going to ask questions of me, but at the end of the day, I am a clean athlete, and I have worked hard.

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

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?

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

I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

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.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

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.

Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

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

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

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.

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

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

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

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

In Girls Aloud, there's always someone there to help out, to jump in on difficult questions and to moan with about how hard we're working. That camaraderie isn't there when you're solo.

Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Good questions inform, great questions transform

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 wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

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

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

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

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

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

Whenever I'm traveling, it's a switch of, like, adult, mature Grace VanderWaal answering questions. Sometimes it's hard to get that balance of old, normal me as well.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

I always believed that I would make it to the first team through hard work and determination and I didn't let anybody get in the way of my focus, even my dad when he had questions.

Curiosity is a key building block. The more curious you are, the more creativity you will unleash. A great way to do that is to ask the three "magic questions" again and again... those questions are simply, "Why", "What if?", and "Why not?". Asking these questions constantly focused you on the possibilities and away from how things are at the moment.

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.