All Quotes

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
‐‐ Xavier Niel

The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
‐‐ Joan Ganz Cooney

The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
‐‐ Mark Goddard

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
‐‐ Jean Fritz

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
‐‐ Gavin Hood

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
‐‐ Abbe Pierre

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister

The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
‐‐ Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
‐‐ Andy Stern

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
‐‐ David Attenborough

The question is - did Richard Attenborough have a right to make 'Gandhi?' And did Danny Boyle have a right to make 'Slumdog Millionaire?' Quite honestly, if they didn't have the right to make these films, I had no right to make 'Elizabeth.'
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
‐‐ Robert Fitzgerald

The question is just as important as the answer.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
‐‐ George Ball

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
‐‐ Jeremy Bentham

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
‐‐ Joel Osteen

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
‐‐ Kathleen Battle

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
‐‐ John Templeton

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
‐‐ Susan George

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
‐‐ Lawrence Eagleburger

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.
‐‐ Edward Felten

The question is not 'Why advertise in realtime?' The question is, 'Who are the brands and businesses that are going to be built off the realtime web?'
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?
‐‐ Matt Apuzzo

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
‐‐ Billy Tauzin

The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
‐‐ Macklemore

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
‐‐ Joel Coen

The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

The question is, why do we have Muslims in the country?
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
‐‐ George Foreman