24 Questions

There are two sides to every question.
Protagoras

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side. Oscar Levant





The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.
Gerhard Schroder

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
Kathy Acker

If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein

Why talk when you can paint?
Milton Avery

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
Jean-Luc Godard

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
Golda Meir

I ask, who was first to blame?
Chief Joseph

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
Ruby Dee

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
Jim Wallis

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Eric Hoffer

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