#quest

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. ↗

— George Oppen

#honesty #poetry #question #simply #sincerity

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#framework #group #interrelated #involve #logical

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#answer #formulates #know #needed #only

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#because #chef #choosing #course #fast

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. ↗

— Liz Phair

#anymore #chaos #give #hack #i

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #answer #books #come #either

If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#asks #i #i do #interact #kid

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

#become #beggars #general #givers #i