„[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer….
And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.“
Quelle: Night
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— Anne Bishop American fiction writer 1955
Quelle: Daughter of the Blood
„every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer…“
— Elie Wiesel, buch Night
Variante: He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Quelle: Night
— Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1882 - 1945
Talking to his son James http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/11/04/fear_and_strength.html on the night of his landslide victory over Herbert Hoover (8 November 1932), as quoted in Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008) by H. W. Brands
1930s
„If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
„You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Quelle: Think Big (1996), p. 46
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
— Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44
„What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.“
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.
— Aurelius Augustinus, buch Confessions
XI, 14
Confessions (c. 397)
— Tracie Peterson American writer 1959
Quelle: Morning's Refrain
— Emo Philips American comedian 1956
The Guardian - The best God joke ever - and it's mine! (September 1980)
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
Kontext: I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as a setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles, or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the day of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?".
— Robert A. Heinlein, buch Beyond This Horizon
Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 2, “Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief—”, p. 35; see also pages 31, 33
