Real Questions Quotes - Page 5

• The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Real, Soul, Quality

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.237, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

  William Stafford

  Giving Up, Real, Kids

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it could actually answer the question. You could ask a real question and get an answer as if you were talking to a person who read all those millions and billions of pages, understood them, and synthesized all that information.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Real, Talking, Answers

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And it seems to me that you survive in community or in solidarity, with others who are taking the risk with you.

  Judith Butler

  Real, Community, Risk

  Source: ilga.org

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• Let's start with Jesus' answer: "Look for the kingdom first and all else will come together." Life is fragmenting, fragmented. I have a thousands things to do, others do too. We can live our life as if the main question is, "How can keep it together? How do I juggle all the balls? But the real question is, "How can I stay home - interiorly home - while I do these many things?

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Real, Home

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Real, Leaving

  "Trump's EPA Pick Softens Positions Amid Democratic Criticisms" by Jennifer A Dlouhy, www.bloomberg.com. January 19, 2017.

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• The real question is not what's wrong with Trump, what's up with Trump, but what's up with the establishment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Trump, Establishment

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

  Jeff Ross

  Real, Accomplishment, Longevity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

  Raoul Peck

  Country, Real, Important

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• Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

  Judith Butler

  Real, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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