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Questioning Quotes (page 51)

Allen Ginsberg quote: "Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one..."
Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"] Allen Ginsberg
He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking the other way. It even seemed to him that she, a worn-out, aged, no longer beautiful woman, not remarkable for anything, simple, merely a kind mother of a family, ought in all fairness to be indulgent. It turned out to be quite the opposite. Leo Tolstoy
I can’t explain why, I just know. Do you remember the first question I ever asked you?” “Yes, you asked me if I knew what being crazy meant.” “Exactly. This time I’m not going to tell you a story. I’ll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they... Paulo Coelho
Elie Wiesel quote: "every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer ...."
every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . . Elie Wiesel
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me. Orson Scott Card
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. Dave Barry
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred. Mort Sahl
Julian Barnes quote: "Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer...."
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. Julian Barnes
Jodi Picoult quote: "We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question..."
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? Jodi Picoult
Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay? Jodi Picoult
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here? Northrop Frye
Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what? Bill Watterson
Jack Johnson quote: "Love is the answerAt least for most of the questions in my..."
Love is the answerAt least for most of the questions in my heartWhy are we here and where do we goAnd how come it's so hard Jack Johnson
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much, soon to forget it. . . . James Madison
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. Walt Whitman

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