#quest

He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart. ↗

— Thomas H. Cook

#questions #truth #experience

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#constructed #deeply #determined #differences #disturbing

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. ↗

— Brian Baird

#appeal #back #courage #goal #government

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#call #could #everything #i #instant

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#believe #better #carefully #choose #here

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#ask #because #been #going #i

Literature is the question minus the answer. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#literature #minus #question

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#ask #going #life-changing #questions #something