Question Quotes
5875 quotes by 3784 authors
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I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
— Josh Lanyon
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Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I…
— Carl Rogers
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It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.
— Ayn Rand
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They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
— Daniel Handler
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Why are you smiling?' Gargarin asked Froi, from across the balconette. 'When you're going to have to learn a lesson in diplomacy today and choose…
— Melina Marchetta
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Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Art is a big question mark.
— Marilyn Manson
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So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you…
— Lydia Davis
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether…
— John Locke
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If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense…
— Ayn Rand
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What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?
— Ruta Sepetys
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The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only…
— George R. R. Martin
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