#question

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#country #die #doing #go #know

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#ask #because #big #big questions #death

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change? ↗

— Chris Christie

#anymore #big #change #demand #government

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they? ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#inappropriate #kinds #life #people #public

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#again #answer #answering #anything #been

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#else #haven #how #lives #many

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important