Answer Quotes

• Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • School
  • Education
  • Question

• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Immortality
  • Receive
  • Lord God

• Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Prayer

• NANCY DREW began peeling off her garden gloves as she ran up the porch steps and into the hall to answer the ringing telephone. She picked it up and said, “Hello!”

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Ran
  • Telephone
  • Gloves

• Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Problems
  • Answer
  • China

• The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Long
  • Silence
  • Fool

• If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Question
  • Interested
  • Personal

• Now, this meeting would have taken place in mid-to-late 2004, over two years after we started recording, and a lot happened between that summit and the album coming out. One of them was that terrible tsunami in Indonesia on Boxing Day. Because of that, the record company got cold feet on Barney’s cover image, fearing a possible media backlash, and Alan Parkes from Warners had to go to Pete’s studio, pleading with him to do another sleeve. Pete was insistent. ‘No, I don’t want to do one. I don’t want to do it,’ but Alan was just as persistent, until at last Pete got fed up and wrote ‘NO’ on a piece of paper, gave it to Alan and said, ‘There’s my answer,’ and Alan went, ‘That’ll do,’ and took it. I like it. I think it’s one of his best sleeves.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Persistent
  • Sleeves
  • Record Company

• Genius sees the answer before the question.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Question
  • Genius
  • Answer

• Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Causes

• You asked me a question; this is the answer. This is who you are.

  

  Alexandra Reid Rania
  • Question
  • Answer

• The second category of personal questions would be more relevant when I finally call it a day and find myself in a reminiscent or atavistic frame of mind. As it is, I am still on the move - and intend to be so. It is not fair to ask me to anticipate the possible answers to such 'terminal' questions. I hope my reluctance to answer these questions will be understood in the right spirit.

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Fair

• It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Faults
  • Tongue
  • Prompt

• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Question

• The Bible says, “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Bible
  • Answer
  • Wrath

• Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Job
  • Questions
  • Answer

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  

  Ed Cunningham
  • Friends
  • Answer
  • Wait

• I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Political
  • Feelings
  • Answer

• There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Question
  • Deal

• The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Understanding

• Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Job
  • Tax
  • Increases

• There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Answer
  • Resources
  • Satisfy

• "God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Result
  • Atheism
  • God Is

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