Answer Quotes

• No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature
  • Song
  • VIolin

• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• 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

• 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

• We are signatories to ILO conventions, and we don't think we have done anything in contravention of the agreements. We will answer the complaint point by point. This is not the proper way to address the problem, and we would have preferred to have face-to-face discussions.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Point
  • Address
  • Complaint

• Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

  

  Cedric Price
  • Technology
  • Answer

• When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Get

• I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Answer
  • Obsessive

• Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Answer

• I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

  

  Linda Blair
  • She
  • Mother
  • Private Person

• I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Dream
  • Answer
  • Revealing

• We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Solitude
  • Answer
  • Acknowledge

• The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Important
  • Question
  • Seldom

• Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Goal
  • Exist
  • Justify

• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  

  Bert Williams
  • People
  • America
  • Song

• Who..who..who..who..who.. Let the Dogs out? It was never clear. Finally I get an answer!

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Never
  • Clear
  • Finally

• Are we aware of our mind’s distortions of our past experiences? In most cases, the answer is no. As time goes by and the memories gradually change, we become convinced that we saw or said or did what we remember.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Experiences

• We don't know the answer to that question. That's one of the things investigators are looking into, but it would be unwise for us to speculate on that at this time.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Investigators

• The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Question
  • Answer

• 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

• I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Receive
  • Attacks
  • Air Force

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

  

  Plutarch
  • Silence
  • Answer
  • Wise Man

• I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • Attack
  • Medication

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