Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the questio...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS An unanswered question is a REAL QUESTION !
EPHDAN Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but a...
JEFF BEZOS The biggest unanswered question is how Venus went so terribly wrong and became such a hellish place ...
LARRY ESPOSITO Women's liberty", "women's independence" are words on everybody's lips these days, but they stay on ...
SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
EDDIE REDMAYNE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had or...
IAN SMITH I think I'll leave that question unanswered.
GINA CALDER I have seen and been involved in acquisitions where that big question is left unanswered.
DARIN BRUMBY I think that's the unanswered question: What makes it distinct?
MATT WAGNER For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
OLOF PALME

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MARIE KONDO

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JOAN RIVERS

Life is not a true or false question.
REBECCA MCKINSEY

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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GARY RYAN BLAIR It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country&...
EISAKU SATO That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
PAUL TSONGAS

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman ye...
DAN BUCATINSKY

But there was no equation or series of questions that could turn this moment into an answer.
CATHERINE LACEY Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is t...
SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY To me it's still an open question, but here's some evidence that warrants some serious consideration...
JEFF MELDRUM That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stu...
CIARAN HINDS

The meaning of life is not a question to be answered, but an event to be experienced.
UNKNOWN I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
SAM SHEPPARD There does seem to be a statistical advantage, but the practical advantage is still an open question...
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This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme ...
JAMES FENTON Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemis...
JOHANNES STARK

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JOE SLOVO The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor i...
NIKOLAI BORDYAEV

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
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VIKTOR VEKSELBERG What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to m...
ELLIOT COWAN

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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RAY DALIO

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
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E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ

The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's i...
PATRICK WILSON What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the ot...
MILLICENT FAWCETT Life is a question,but death is the answer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.
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Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
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A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggl...
TRACY K. SMITH

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I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's wh...
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DAVID JEREMIAH I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennesse...
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It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question ...
ERIC SCHLOSSER I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.
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JONATHAN SACKS Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are...
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From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important ...
PETER THIEL

Why people do that in case it can be predicted like the table of chess, why people are liars and hyp...
DEYTH BANGER 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe...
JAKE T. AUSTIN There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is...
MICHAEL NYMAN That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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IAN THORPE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE This is without question the most famous mandolin ever played. The historical importance and emotion...
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GARY F EVANS...

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and oth...
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ERWIN CHARGAFF

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of ...
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch i...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is prepar...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmle...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincer...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS

You can't cheat the public for long.
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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