Quotes of: Asking-questions Keyword

Do ever respond to a question without asking another question? Does it bother you? No. But it does confirm my hypothesis. What hypothesis? He let out a heavy sigh, and with it, all the residual warmth from our flirty banther evaporated. " You're a sh...

Love Hacked

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your li...

Sophie's World

X: That's the real question isn't it: why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, The Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question: why? Why was Kennedy...

JFK

You’re not listening to any of this, are you?” As far as she was concerned, it was really a rhetorical question. Rather than answer yes or no, Esteban had a question of his own. “Would it matter?” he asked her. “You seem to like to talk, an...

Love

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into fort...

Bossypants

He’d never actually been in a room with an insane person. Someone who asked questions they thought they already knew the answers to, or someone who asked, just to hear an answer they could disagree with. Sometimes, it was neither and they only want...

Balfour's Temple

She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep, to be asked questions while you kept your eyes clos...

The Hydrogen Sonata

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ...

Larry Fitzgerald

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question t...

Henry Petroski

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living ...

Harold S. Kushner

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.

Center Ice

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Daughter of the Blood

Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

A spell perhaps?” The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

First Frost

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.

The Gathering

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.

The Ground Will Catch You

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

Clockwork Angel

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Libba Bray