Quotes
Quotes about Quest
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. [Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. -RAINER MARIA RILKE.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?'
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Ignorance never settles a question.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"
