— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90
„We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.“
— Matthew Stover, buch Blade of Tyshalle
(XIV.3) Del Rey, p. 472
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
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— Northrop Frye Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912 - 1991
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
„What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist.“
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Quelle: Wintergirls
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
The President's reasoning for telling reporters in the Oval Office that the current Defense Secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, would be staying on, although Bush had already selected potential replacements. Given at a news conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108-2.html (November 8, 2006)
2000s, 2006
— C. V. Boys British physicist 1855 - 1944
[Charles Vernon Boys, Soap-bubbles and the forces which mould them: Being a course of three lectures delivered in the theatre of the London institution on the afternoons of Dec. 30, 1889, Jan. 1 and 3, 1890, before a juvenile audience, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1896, 11]
— Bhakti Tirtha Swami American Hindu writer 1950 - 2005
If we do not, then we should look somewhere else.
Quelle: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume III: Solace for the Heart in Difficult Times (Hari-Nama Press, 2000), Chapter 8 - How To Strengthen Ourselves
„How, then, shall I respond to him who asks, “What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?” I do not answer, as a certain one is reported to have done facetiously (shrugging off the force of the question). “He was preparing hell,” he said, “for those who pry too deep.” It is one thing to see the answer; it is another to laugh at the questioner--and for myself I do not answer these things thus. More willingly would I have answered, “I do not know what I do not know,” than cause one who asked a deep question to be ridiculed--and by such tactics gain praise for a worthless answer.“
Ecce respondeo dicenti, 'quid faciebat deus antequam faceret caelum et terram?' respondeo non illud quod quidam respondisse perhibetur, ioculariter eludens quaestionis violentiam: 'alta,' inquit, 'scrutantibus gehennas parabat.' aliud est videre, aliud ridere: haec non respondeo. libentius enim responderim, 'nescio quod nescio' quam illud unde inridetur qui alta interrogavit et laudatur qui falsa respondit.
— Aurelius Augustinus, buch Confessions
Ecce respondeo dicenti, 'quid faciebat deus antequam faceret caelum et terram?' respondeo non illud quod quidam respondisse perhibetur, ioculariter eludens quaestionis violentiam: 'alta,' inquit, 'scrutantibus gehennas parabat.'
aliud est videre, aliud ridere: haec non respondeo. libentius enim responderim, 'nescio quod nescio' quam illud unde inridetur qui alta interrogavit et laudatur qui falsa respondit.
Book XI, Chapter XII; translation by E.B. Pusey
Confessions (c. 397)
— Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994
As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Section 1.16
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
— Joseph C. Wilson American ambassador 1949 - 2019
What I Didn't Find in Africa (2003)
Kontext: Those are the facts surrounding my efforts. The vice president's office asked a serious question. I was asked to help formulate the answer. I did so, and I have every confidence that the answer I provided was circulated to the appropriate officials within our government.
The question now is how that answer was or was not used by our political leadership. If my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very interested to know why). If, however, the information was ignored because it did not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses.
„In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.“
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
Quelle: New Seeds of Contemplation
— Herman E. Daly American economist 1938
Herman Daly in: " Herman Daly http://www.utne.com/politics/herman-daly-economics-cooperative-collective-good.aspx," in Utne Reader,Jan.-Feb. 1995.
— Anne Bishop American fiction writer 1955
Quelle: Daughter of the Blood
— Gottfried de Purucker Author, Theosophist 1874 - 1942
Quelle: Man in Evolution (1941), Chapter 1
— Helen Thomas American author and journalist 1920 - 2013
Phone interview on The Majority Report, 2004-04-02
