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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
— Oscar Wilde
Short questions with long answers, my boy.
— Patrick W. Carr, The Hero's Lot
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
— Jeremy Aldana
He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
— K.D. Sarge, His Faithful Squire
All right gentlemen, we have a job to do. At approximately 01:30 tonight, three children made an escape. Our job is to find them and bring them back. Every minute the factory is down, I lose two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-seven cents. Therefore, we must find them and find them fast. They were last seen heading south by southwest in three makeshift kites. We'll head in that direction, fanning out and using our heat sensors to track them. Any questions?" Tubaface raised his hand. "Yes?""Where do babies come from?""That question is wholly innapropriate to our present situation. Someone slap him.
— Seán Cullen, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which prosperity wasn't taken away. For most people, for most of history, it's not true that religion, work and love have led to successful, happy lives. Instability, fear, disease, and war are so much more common that our lives are tremendous exceptions. Isn't that miraculous?
— Mark    Wallace, The Quarry And The Lot
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
— Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth
The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.Maybe my questions matter.
— Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark
Questions married other questions and had theories for children.
— Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper
I am filled with wonderings, questions and doubt,but of one thing I am certain: it will always be youthat gives flight to the butterflies inside me;calm to the sea I have become and hope to the darkness all around us.It is you and it has always been you...you.
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
If love is not the answer, what is the question?
— Marty Rubin
The question that sometime's drive's me hazy, am i or the other's crazy?
— Albert Einstein
So many questionsbut nothing to say,in this current momentwe are still so farfrom the answers.
— Liz  Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats
Question marks are met with periodsBy people full of arroganceThey have every answer, nothing mysteriousAnd yet they have no evidence.
— Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe
Have you questioned reality today?
— Michea Bonilla
Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.
— Milan Kundera
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
— Richard Feyman
I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎
Dear Waves,You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.
— Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
Every human being ask this question of himself
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.
— John Hawkins, 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.
— Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent
The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.
— Will Schwalbe
Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.
— Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Nobody seems to know which came first; egg or chicken – except of course for agents of the Time Saving Agency – who can find out anything about, well – anything. The only trouble is, they aren’t talking – however, you can take it from me – they know. The answer to these and other puzzles are kept safe and secure behind fire-walls and thick security doors secured with, er – time-locks, where one could possibly find answers to many other troubling questions, and not all of them necessarily relating to chickens.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Sometimes some questions... shouldn't been answered... sometimes some stuff should be kept private... sometimes some people should just exist in specific places...
— Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 1
The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned.
— Dean Cavanagh
Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way.
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid 1
Answers comes only when questions are asked
— Sunday Adelaja
How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?
— Scott Stambach, The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
Questions to be answered by questions itself when you wanna ignore it in first place. It’s better to be diplomatic rather than Ignorant.
— Praveen Chenna
The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.
— Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.
— Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn’t know.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Thousand people, thousand heart, thousand opinions;One truth.
— Sandesh limbu
To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
— Raheel Farooq
All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real questions, those that concern the creator and his creation, have no answers. I'll go even farther and say that there is a level at which only the questions are eternal, the answers never are. And so, the patient that I am, more charitable, repeats: 'Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as in the answers.
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
We are Surrounded by Paradoxes and Questions!
— Deyth Banger
You want to understand are they needing you or not??Are they with you or not??Do they feel what you to make them better or not..Wow these are a lot of questions, I just don't know from where to start...Okay..., just stop doing that, stop being part of them, just remove them from social and non social live for a time... and keep waiting you could give some kind a information about where you will be or not and wait you will see everything.
— Deyth Banger
Life is a question, to live it positively is the Answer
— Samar Sudha
Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't stop asking, and don't let anybody tell you the questions aren't worth it. They are.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The First book written by me was like a puzzle, like "What to write now, first?", "From Where to Start First?", "What to add more?", "Which will be liked??" A lot of questions, you know that biography books are difficult you need to add the stuff which will make impress, scar or give a lesson to the people, not to repeat the boring life!
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid
We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Asking questions is an art.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions.
— Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions—what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them—even when faced with the reality that the answers weren’t always pretty.
— Angela Lynn, All The What Ifs
Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)
— Peter Carlaftes
How can you find answers, if you do not ask questions?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hey, why this person blocked me?", "WTF, this guy I know him!", "WTF this guy I don't know but he has send me request???", "Oh,oh That's the famous singer from the TV!! I know that person, I know him?!, I know him!?"... This is called the future - so my question is are you prepared for this?
— Deyth Banger
Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
May I ask you a highly personal question?""It's what life does all the time.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it cornering a person. Instead of just telling you what I want you to know, I ambush you with questions. You try to escape, but you can’t. You can run whichever way you like, but in the end you’ll fall right into my trap.
— Sophia Nikolaidou, The Scapegoat
You shouldn’t ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.
— Eraldo Banovac
For any question – regardless of its complexity – there is a clear andsimple answer.
— Eraldo Banovac
What can I do in this situation?" The more we can ask such questions, the more we bring about changes where we are.
— Sunday Adelaja
I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.Tell me why you loved them,then tell me why they loved you. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirroron a day you’re feeling good.I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirroron a day you’re feeling bad.I wanna know the first person who taught you your beautycould ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.See, I wanna know more than what you do for a living.I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving,and if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes.I wanna know if you bleed sometimesfrom other people’s wounds,and if you dream sometimesthat this life is just a balloon —that if you wanted to, you could pop,but you never would‘cause you’d never want it to stop.If a tree fell in the forestand you were the only one there to hear —if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound,would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist,or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?
— Andrea Gibson
My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!
— Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
Don't ask questions that you don't want the answer to.
— John Henry Reese
Go Slow to Go Fast in Growing a Stronger Bond With Others: When you see someone's interest rise in the conversation, you have a glimpse of the hook that can best connect you together. Ask follow-up questions, directly related to what that person just said. If you do just this much, recent research shows you are among the five percent of Americans in conversation. In so doing, you accomplish two things. You've increased their openness and warmth toward you, because you've demonstrated you care. And you've had a closer look at the hook that most matters to them in the conversation. Now you can speak to their hottest interest, in a way that can serve you both.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.
— Jim Goad
The right questions help you discover the right answers. Be careful what questions you are asking yourself…
— Steven Aitchison
Questions create the only light that can permeate a formidable truth.
— Damond Jiniya
Bit of a limp conclusion if you ask me,” Osric growled. “You academics are always so timid with your words. Your conclusion sounds like a different form of the question.” “And so it is, Osric,” Fergal said with a chuckle. “Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
People? They usually ask only stupid questions, forcing you to reply with equally stupid answers. For instance, they ask you what you do, not what you would have liked to do. They ask you what you own, not what you’ve lost. They ask about the woman you married, not about the one you love. About your name, but not if it suits you. They ask your age, but not how well you’ve lived those years. They ask about the city you live in, not about the city that lives in you. And they ask if you pray, not if you fear God.So I’ve gotten used to answering these questions with silence. You know, when we shut up, we force others to reconsider their mistakes.
— Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.
— Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.
— Shannon L. Alder
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?16. What do you value most in a friendship?17. What is your most treasured memory?18. What is your most terrible memory?19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?20. What does friendship mean to you?21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling ... “26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share ... “27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know.28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?31. Tell your partner something that you like about them already.32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.
— The New York Times
Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
there is one question on my head , its people complicated or life complicated or people make it complicated or me so complicated what complicated even mean ?
— Jameel
Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.
— Robin Wasserman, The Book of Blood and Shadow
More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?
— Gemma Malley, The Resistance
There are always two sides of a coin, our Life too has two sides... on one side there is life where there are questions and fears but, on the other side there is a whole new world full of answers and peace.
— Viraj J. Mahajan
In life; not all questions require gentle answers, some just want you to be so stupid to answer in a stupid way.
— Auliq Ice
How can I find a way to overcome this?’ is a much better question than ‘Why is my life so bad?’It’s the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.
— Steven Aitchison
It’s not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it’s the quality of the question
— Steven Aitchison
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
— Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
— Marty Rubin
There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.
— Shannon L. Alder
A responsible step in loosening the grip of any lie we might be living is to ask ourselves, solemnly and seriously, this momentous question: "Might I be in the wrong?" What gives this question its power? The answer can be stated very simply: Just to ask the question seriously, even without answering it, is already to undergo a change of attitude.
— C. Terry Warner
I may not have all the answers, but I do know the questions you no longer need answers for.
— Robert J. Braathe
My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.
— Katherine McIntyre, Snatched
What's the difference between hot and cold cereal? Why can't all cereals get along?
— Ean Rodriguez
Difficult questions can have simple answers.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Answers to the most bewildering questions can be got only when asked to oneself
— Vinod Narayan
It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
How could he mean so much to me in such a short time?
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays.
— Shannon L. Alder
Imagine yourself near the end of your life. You are relaxing in a rocking chair reflecting on the decision you presently want to make. As the older, wiser you thinks about the outcome of your choice, ask yourself three simple questions.1. Did it cause harm?2. Did it bring about good?3. How did it shape the person I became?The Rocking Chair Test helps you to take a long view of your options. After imagining your answers to those questions, you should know better which way to go.
— Steve Goodier
But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That´s a good question? Don´t you feel good when that happens?
— Nicholson Baker, A Box of Matches
The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.
— Mark Forsyth, The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted
Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?
— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
Are you asking because you really want an answer?
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
— Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
— Georg Cantor
It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
— Rebecca Stott, Ghostwalk
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
— Curtis Bill Pepper, Leonardo: A Biographical Novel
I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Sometimes, the only thing that stands in your way from moving on completely is one question. Sadly, it is the one question God asked another person to answer for you. Be the solution, not the problem.
— Shannon L. Alder
All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.
— Michael Hogan, Letters For My Son
If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.
— Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction
Many like to ask the questions
—  few like to hear the answers.
Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.
— D.E. Navarro
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
— William S. Burroughs, With William Burroughs: A Report From The Bunker
A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.
— Solomon ibn Gabirol
Explanations are for cowards.
— J. Ross Clara, Citations: A Brief Anthology
Quality questions create a quality life.
Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.
— Guy P. Harrison, 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian
Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant
—  who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
Life has a way of answering questions you didn't even ask.
— Steve Maraboli
Questions asked out of agenda threaten Questions asked out of authentic, loving inquiry unlock and liberateChoose.
— Dave Rudbarg
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
— Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.
— Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Do you love her?' she asked him.'Always have,' he said.'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?
— Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy
She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.
— Deanna Raybourn, A Spear of Summer Grass
Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings stronger than cursing.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections
Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs than it is on philosophers I'll take a chance.
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Three questions,” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Taken by Storm
But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
— Patrick Carman, Stargazer
Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they thought, and their eyes seemed to blur, because they remembered asking those questions themselves, long ago.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, Mondo et autres histoires
Only to me... Why does he take me home every wednesday? Why did he run to me when his club activities ended? Why isn't he using formal language? Why is he talking to me? Why... The more I think about it, the prouder I get. How does he feel about me?
— Suu Morishita ( 森下suu), 日々蝶々 3
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
what would the masters do?when people arn’t successful, they sometimes wonder, why not? they get answers, then they wonder why those answers don’t seem to meet their needs. they get the wrong answers, and they get upset about it. perhaps they’re really getting the right answers, but answering the wrong questions.too many people ask nothing but “Why” questions.they analyze and analyse problems - but no solution. “you can analyse a glass of water and you’re left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink”.“Why?” questions can drive us crazy. “What?” questions drive us sane.What questions lead us to practical solutions.
— Peter McWilliams
What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That’s what happened the first time, after all.
— D.R. Silva, It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church
Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.
— D.A. Blankinship, The Scoloderus Conspiracy
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
— Alice Munro
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
— Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
— Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
— Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
At the fruit of existence, there is a single concept of anonymity. This unknown concept is well known however. All one has to do is simply look behind the mirror for the answer. Yet, the answer won't come until the right question is asked. Because the illusions of reality are dressed in endless reflections, the blind will continue to be guided by the blind. The unknown concept is recognized to those who have tasted the fruit of existence, and as distant as the woman trying to grab Heaven from the reflection of an empty pond.
— Lionel Suggs
When one needs an answer to life's greatest questions, look towards either Chaos or Nothingness.
— Lionel Suggs
She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.
— Steven Herrick, A Place Like This
I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!” He demanded.“I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.”“Why won’t you answer my question correctly!
— Miranda Leek, Twisted!
Love is Faith and Hope, but Faith or Hope is not a Love..#love_faith_n_hope From : Andra_n_the_backbone
— Andra and The Backbone
Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.
— Rick Riordan
What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.
— Rick Riordan
Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked."It only works on wild animals.""So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned."Hey!" I protested.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"You'd probably kick my 
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?""Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"I don't hate you."Could've fooled me."She folded her cap of invisibility. "Look...we're just not supposed to get along, okay? Our parents are rivals."Why?"She sighed. "How many reasons do you want? One time my mom caught Poseidon with his girlfriend in Athena's temple, which is hugely disrespectful. Another time, Athena and Poseidon competed to be the patron god for the city of Athens. Your dad created some stupid saltwater spring for his gift. My mom created the olive tree. The people saw that her gift was better, so they named the city after her."They must really like olives."Oh, forge
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed int
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
It's him," I said. "Typhon."I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!
— Rick Riordan
Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned from a pen into a sword just by uncapping it."Cool! Does it ever run out of ink?""Um, well, I don't actually write with it.""Are you really the son of Poseidon?""Well, yeah.""Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to get out-"erm, thankful for the aid of Hades."The lord of the dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him."And, of course," Zeus continued, though he looked like his pants were smoldering, "we must...um...thank Poseidon.""I'm sorry, brother," Poseidon said. "What was that?""We must thank Poseidon," Zeus growled. "Without whom . . . it would've been difficult-""Difficult?" Poseidon asked innocently."Impossible," Zeus said. "Impossible to defeat Typhon.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.
— Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athenians--the gemini.""Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo.""No, stupid," Leo said. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the water. Some of the campers gasped. A couple of the Hunters stifled laughs."Sorry!" Thalia said, turning pale. "I didn't mean to—"Anger roared in my ears. A wave erupted from the creek, blasting into Thalia's face and dousing her from head to toe.I stood up. "Yeah," I growled. "I didn't mean to, either."Thalia was breathing heavily."Enough!" Chiron ordered.But Thalia held out her spear. "You want some, Seaweed Brain?"Somehow, it was okay when Annabeth called me that — at least, I'd gotten used to it — but hearing it from Thalia was not cool."Bring it on, Pinecone Face!
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"Y-yes, Mr. D."Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god."Yes, child."A god. You.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked at Nico. Then at Annabeth, as if to check that he’d heard correctly. Then back at Nico. ‘You –’ ‘Yeah,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a great person. But I’m over that. I’m happy for you guys.’ ‘You … so you mean –’ ‘Right.’ Annabeth’s grey eyes started to sparkle. She gave Nico a sideways smile. ‘Wait,’ Percy said. ‘So you mean –’ ‘Right,’ Nico said again. ‘But it’s cool. We’re cool. I mean, I see now … you’re cute, but you’re not my type.’ ‘I’m not your type … Wait. So –’ ‘See you around, Percy,’ Nico said.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas.The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents."Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s.""Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said.Graver sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States."Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?""Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture.""She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said."Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. "So annoying.""I wish she were here," I said.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Percy scowled. "I-I know you."Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
We need music," Nico said. "How's your singing?""Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all.""It's not so easy. We need music."I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.”You both sound like my mother,” I said.Shut up!” they both said in union.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!Suddenly there was a tug in my lower back. The current pulled at me, but it wasn't carrying me away anymore. I imagined the string in my back keeping me tied to the shore."Hold on, Seaweed Brain." It was Annabeth's voice, much clearer now. "You're not getting away from me that easily."The cord strengthened.I could see Annabeth now- standing barefoot above me on the canoe lake pier. I'd fallen out of my canoe. That was it. She was reaching out her hand to haul me up, and she was trying not to laugh. She wore her orange camp T-shirt and jeans. Her hair was tucked up in her Yankees cap, which was strange because that should have made her invisible."You are such an idiot sometimes." She smiled. "Come on. Take my hand."Memories came flooding back to me- sharper and more colorful. I stopped dissolving. My name was Percy Jackson. I reached up and took Annabeth's hand.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. “Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!”Nothing happ
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Keep climbing,' he told himself.'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.'Shut up,' he thought.'With fries,' his stomach complained.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract enough monsters already.”“Do we get WANTED posters?” Leo asked. “And do they have our bounties, like, broken down on a price li
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
You speak horse?" Hazel asked."Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing.""Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too."Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
Brother,” Artemis chided. “You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon.""Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother.""Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?’ Percy wondered. ‘Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?" Leo smiled nervously. Maybe he and Percy did share something else – a stupid sense of humour. "Yeah, I bet that would totally be against her sponsorship deal. THOSE ARE NOT THE OFFICIAL SHOES OF THE OLYMPICS! YOU WILL DIE NOW!
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall."Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!""Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep.""Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus."Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy!
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Dude! said a party pony as he unloaded his gear. Did you see that bear guy? He was all like: 'Whoa, I have an arrow in my mouth!
— Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters