I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it. . . . For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering. " That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.
Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?
I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
