If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. Lynn Abbey
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.Napoleon Bonaparte
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth? Mark Bittman
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?' Mary Kay Blakely
Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.Evelyn Ashford
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. Bryant H.McGill
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. Jim Evans
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people. Margaret Atwood
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question. Billie Jean King
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell
The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can. Apolo Ohno
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'Martin Luther King
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Margaret Atwood
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. Curt Schilling
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.Martin Luther King