All Quotes

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
‐‐ Robert Walpole

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
‐‐ Theodore Gericault

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
‐‐ John Strachan

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
‐‐ E. T. A. Hoffmann

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
‐‐ George Eliot

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?
‐‐ Bob Diamond

Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
‐‐ Asa Gray

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
‐‐ Matisyahu

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?
‐‐ Stephen Vizinczey

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.
‐‐ King George V

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
‐‐ Alan Perlis

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
‐‐ John Clayton

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
‐‐ Leon Kass

Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
‐‐ Jean Renoir

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
‐‐ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
‐‐ Michael Madsen

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
‐‐ Milton Friedman

Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
‐‐ Barbara G. Walker

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
‐‐ Pierre Curie

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
‐‐ Oriana Fallaci

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
‐‐ Garet Garrett

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
‐‐ Max Muller

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
‐‐ Bruce McCulloch

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.
‐‐ June Singer

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?
‐‐ Sean Hannity

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
‐‐ K. A. Paul

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
‐‐ Gwen Ifill