Top 1200 Rhetorical Question Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question the motive. No one knows you the way you do.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Have I ever had sex with a hooker? I'd like to answer that question with a question of my own. Can just anyone look up police records?

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when.

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

I don't question God, I don't question His love for me.

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.

That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I hate it when you answer a question with a question." "No you dont, you think its charming.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.