First Question Quotes
58 quotes by 55 authors
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you…
— John Cage
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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both…
— Evelyn Underhill
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What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our…
— George Will
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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
— George Washington Cable
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To create, one must first question everything.
— Eileen Gray
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Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit'
— Barack Obama
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The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
— James Madison
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The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian…
— George Clooney
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We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop…
— Bill Maher
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was…
— Frederick Scott Oliver
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When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
— Wendy Cope
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The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t…
— Maggie Gallagher
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
— John Ruskin
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and…
— George Leigh Mallory
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You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this…
— Birch Bayh
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
— George Oppen
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In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging…
— Isabella Rossellini
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