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Big Question Quotes

The questions too big to answer quickly.

The big question changes shape across this set — sometimes it's whether you're ready to embrace a real Challenge or adventure without hesitating, sometimes it's a quieter puzzle about whether generations really grow up differently.

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera...

Quotes by William Bolcom

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

Quotes by Ray Dalio

Challenge Quotes

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you...

Quotes by Patrick J. Adams

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a...

Quotes by Michael Nyqvist

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.

Quotes by Melissa Joan Hart

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?

Quotes by Fred DeLuca

Curiosity Quotes

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Quotes by David Smith

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have...

Quotes by Ariel Pink

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even...

Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

Quotes by Alex Lowe

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of 'big questions' show up in this set?
Everything from artistic ambition in opera to how different generations actually grow up. The phrase gets applied to both personal and cultural-scale uncertainty.
Why would someone search for big question quotes?
Usually for writing that opens with a genuine, unresolved question. These quotes work as prompts because they don't pretend to have easy answers.
Is there a quote connecting big questions to storytelling or history?
Yes — it traces how a country's unresolved wartime conscience, one that never had to reckon with occupation the way its neighbors did, shapes an entire genre of Mystery fiction that followed.
Do any quotes frame a big question as something exciting rather than heavy?
One does, framing the big question as whether you're willing to embrace a real Challenge or adventure without hesitating, a more energizing take than the historical one.
Are these quotes more philosophical or more practical?
A mix — one is fairly abstract about generational difference, while the opera-related quote is more practically about what makes a creative work worth the trouble.

One quote applies it to storytelling itself, tracing how a country's unresolved history can shape the Mystery novels it produces. Big questions rarely stay confined to just one subject.