Answer Quotes
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
Sigmund Freud -
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen -
"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"
Charles Dickens -
If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.
Andrew Plotkin -
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
Henrik Ibsen -
In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
Ann Widdecombe
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Every time someone asks him a question, he just reaches in his pocket and pulls out an answer – but the guy sounds like a cardboard.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?
Elizabeth Scott -
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.
Edmund Berkeley -
Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?
Courtney Milan -
I couldn't work out what she actually wanted. Whether being dead happened in a pretty box on Welsh Street or someplace else, it didn't make a difference. Dead was irreversible. It was permanent. You couldn't do anything about it, and still, Tate seemed determined to take it back, like with the right answer, she could fix everything.
Brenna Yovanoff
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But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.
Anthony Trollope -
I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
Joseph Kosinski -
Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
Jack White The White Stripes -
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
Epictetus -
We'll see. If I don't get an answer before this evening, I'll take 25 pills and gently fall asleep into another world.
Eva Braun -
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?
Ann Althouse
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Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.
Dan Fante -
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
Bernard of Clairvaux -
I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer.
George W. Plunkitt -
And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?
J. R. R. Tolkien