Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am… — Martyn Copy Share Image
We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity.… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination.… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth,… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
rBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for.… — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.'… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to… — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
