Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question...
Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.
The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.
Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.
I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'
I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule. Boys are not allowed to love each other. Then we painted a bison on the wall.
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen. Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.
Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began? Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?
Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ? Master of Stupidity: They live with a same or different part of their consciousness.
Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ? Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.
Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance? Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.
Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist? Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.
The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.
No more tomorrows. Today is the day.
