Asking Quotes - Page 31

• When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threat to world peace, a whopping 86.9% answered the United States.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Korea, Europe, Iraq

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• Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'

  Patrick Caddell

  People, Dollars, Crossroads

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• Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

  Rumi

  Art, Writing, Wine

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• The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

  Rand Paul

  Talking, Issues, Majority

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

  Aimee Mann

  Believe, People, Heard

  "Aimee Mann: A Space of Her Own". Interview with Nancy Updike, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2002.

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• In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Sex, Asking Why

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

  Christian Boltanski

  Sex, Asking Questions, Ends

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.

  Kristina Schroder

  Hunters, Needs, Quota

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• One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?

  Cynthia Daignault

  Two, Space, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.

  R.A. Dickey

  Sports, Pain, Real

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

  Tink

  Beautiful, Giving, Important

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• Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

  Paul Tillich

  Mean, Impact, Asking Questions

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.

  David Graeber

  People, Population, Way

  "The Bully’s Pulpit". thebaffler.com. July 2015.

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• Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

  Susan Meissner

  Children, Sky, Knowing

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• Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?

  Robin Epstein

  Thinking, Asking Questions, People

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.68, Penguin

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• In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?

  Li Ang

  Running, Government, Iowa

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• For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Book, Reading, Sunset

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• The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.

  Nick Goepper

  New York, People, Towns

  "Sochi: Olympic Medal-Winning Skier Nick Goepper Talks Twitter, Tinder, Newfound Fame" by Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

  James Rothman

  Research, Biology, Courses

  "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research" by Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.

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• People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  Olivier Megaton

  Reality, People, Watches

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• But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Regret, Asking Yourself Why, Answers

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• If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  Adam Hasner

  Israel, America, Risk

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Got everything I'm asking for but you.

  Drake

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• We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Return, Virtue

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