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I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
Tags: Child, Happy ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOn the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Tags: Believing, Gone ✍ Author: Kate AdieIn the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Tags: Age, Individual ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoIt's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
Tags: Black, Children ✍ Author: Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeLife's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Tags: Life, Others ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Tags: Creative, Nation ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Tags: Body, Talk ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonTo be, or not to be, that is the question.
✍ Author: William ShakespeareA sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Tags: Him, Times ✍ Author: Francis BaconThe central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?
Tags: President, Put ✍ Author: Howard H. Baker, Jr.Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Tags: Argument, Later ✍ Author: Ray Stannard BakerThe question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
Tags: Saying, Whether ✍ Author: Alan BallDid you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.
Tags: Another, Put ✍ Author: Elizabeth BanksI wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Tags: Tired, Wish ✍ Author: Yogi BerraIn order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Tags: Less, Whatever ✍ Author: Napoleon BonaparteIn most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
Tags: Emotional, Job ✍ Author: Jonathan CainThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Tags: Able, Big ✍ Author: Joseph CampbellCharm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Tags: Answer, Getting ✍ Author: Albert CamusYou know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Tags: Answer, Getting ✍ Author: Albert CamusIn mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Tags: Art, Value ✍ Author: Georg CantorI know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Tags: Happened, Lies ✍ Author: Jennifer CapriatiVisit partners pages
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Tags: Life, True ✍ Author: Thomas CarlyleBut I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Tags: Again, Thinking ✍ Author: Lewis CarrollAlways the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
Tags: Answer, Beautiful ✍ Author: e. e. cummingsThe big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
Tags: Big, Change ✍ Author: Salvador DaliI do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.
Tags: Life, Moral ✍ Author: Theodore DalrympleThat's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
Tags: Granted, Law ✍ Author: Christopher DardenTo tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.
Tags: Tell, Truth ✍ Author: Paul DarrowIt was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
Tags: Failure, Future ✍ Author: Gavyn DaviesI've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.
Tags: Again, Clear ✍ Author: Ron DaviesThe question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Tags: God, Whether ✍ Author: Richard DawkinsThe question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
Tags: Balance, Writing ✍ Author: Lawrence EagleburgerSome experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
Tags: Health, Point ✍ Author: Sylvia EarleI've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Tags: Genius, Someone ✍ Author: Clint EastwoodI guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?
Tags: Guess, Today ✍ Author: Bernard EbbersIt comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Tags: Attention, Difficult ✍ Author: Umberto EcoThat is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
Tags: Good, Wise ✍ Author: Anthony EdenThere are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Tags: Makes, Music ✍ Author: Kenneth EdmondsAs for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Tags: Short, Single ✍ Author: Robert. L. EhrlichThat still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.
Tags: Fact, Lovely ✍ Author: Danny ElfmanWhether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
Tags: Human, Religion ✍ Author: Mircea EliadeThe decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Tags: Decision, Worth ✍ Author: Louis FarrakhanThe question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.
Tags: Asked, Rule ✍ Author: Andrew FastowThis is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.
Tags: Between, Business ✍ Author: James FentonIf you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
Tags: Rather, Tell ✍ Author: Geraldine FerraroOh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
Tags: Music, Yes ✍ Author: Bryan FerryBut nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
Tags: Else, India ✍ Author: E. M. ForsterQuestion everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
Tags: Star, Word ✍ Author: Ernest GainesTo rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Tags: Hand, Rule ✍ Author: Jose Ortega y GassetSince when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Tags: Design, Simple ✍ Author: Bill GatesI started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Tags: Courage, Work ✍ Author: Marilyn HackerAnd it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
Tags: Ego, Far ✍ Author: Taylor HackfordPeople ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.
Tags: Ask, Won ✍ Author: Nikki HaleyIndeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
Tags: Experience, Power ✍ Author: Johann Georg HamannSince the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Tags: Give, Since ✍ Author: Audrey HepburnThe way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Tags: Face, Start ✍ Author: Napoleon HillFor me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?
Tags: Dependent, Paycheck ✍ Author: Kathy IrelandPotentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
Tags: Else, Him ✍ Author: Shintaro IshiharaBut my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
Tags: Line, Words ✍ Author: Joichi ItoThe Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
Tags: Popular, Revolution ✍ Author: Bianca JaggerThe most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
Tags: Ask, Often ✍ Author: Naveen JainAll my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Tags: Experience, Side ✍ Author: Anna JamesonBeing a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.
Tags: Moment, Quite ✍ Author: Katherine JenkinsIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Tags: Debate, Settle ✍ Author: Joseph JoubertThe question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
Tags: Business, Whether ✍ Author: Naoto KanI question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Tags: Money, Stars ✍ Author: Elia KazanI've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
Tags: Looking, Wanted ✍ Author: David LaChapelleIt is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.
Tags: Classy, Few ✍ Author: Jon LandauWriting detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
Tags: Light, Writing ✍ Author: Steig LarssonBut the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
Tags: Matter, Work ✍ Author: Audre LordeYou can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
Tags: History, Questions ✍ Author: Amin MaaloufLike a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.
Tags: Black, Wanted ✍ Author: Bernie MacAnd the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
Tags: Poetry, Second ✍ Author: Norman MacCaigIt's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.
Tags: Work, Writer ✍ Author: Rebecca MaderThe executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
Tags: War, Whether ✍ Author: James MadisonIt's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Tags: Step, Unknown ✍ Author: Gustav MahlerWithout question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.
Tags: Challenge, Social ✍ Author: Daniel MainwaringThe first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
Tags: Once, Try ✍ Author: George Leigh MalloryIt is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Tags: Fear, Whether ✍ Author: Margaret MeadI'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
Tags: Religion, Someone ✍ Author: Youssou N\'DourBut it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
Tags: Answer, Story ✍ Author: Parminder NagraI want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
Tags: Often, Outside ✍ Author: Mira NairKey is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
Tags: Big, Government ✍ Author: Nicholas NegroponteWithout question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
Tags: Finest, Planet ✍ Author: Ted NugentMany manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
Tags: Afraid, Whether ✍ Author: David OgilvyThere is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
Tags: Fact, Why ✍ Author: Barbara OlsonMAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
Tags: Books, May ✍ Author: James OtisIt won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
Tags: Army, Won ✍ Author: Adnan PachachiThe most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.
Tags: Control, Future ✍ Author: David PackardAnytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
Tags: Someone, Understand ✍ Author: Adam PallyThere's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
Tags: Location, Pakistan ✍ Author: Leon PanettaI don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
Tags: America, Result ✍ Author: Leon Panetta