#question

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky – I, on the high, level terrace of my flat, stretched out my hand! Against all odds and possibilities of unbelief and grief – a life of searchings, discontent, and a nagging sense of unreality… A spider-web intuition of a spread-out, intricate illusion that wilfully withheld the truth from me. ↗

— Radhika Mukherjee

#longing #our-particular-shadows #questioning #radhika-mukherjee #beauty

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#ask #authentic #days #difficult #evolved

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer. ↗

— Hal Sutton

#i #love #question #tell #would

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#embarrassing #questions

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#did #i #life #many #my life

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#i #question #think #tough

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? ↗

— Jim Bakker

#first #god #i #prison #questioning

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ↗

— William Banting

#becomes #beyond #charm #comfort #creates

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work. ↗

— Steve Burns

#always #animated #couple #early #episodes