Answer Quotes

• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Know
  • Going
  • Ask

• 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
  • Door
  • Answer
  • Homes

• When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Fire
  • Wrath
  • Insulted

• Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Prayer
  • Overcoming
  • Temptations

• 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

• 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

• The prayer is up to us; the answer is up to God.

  

  Woodrow M. Kroll
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Answer

• 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

• The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

  

  Plato
  • Important
  • Question
  • Answer

• I live for myself and answer to nobody.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Live
  • Answer
  • Nobody

• The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Loved
  • Answer
  • Feared

• They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Today
  • Free

• 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

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

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Never
  • Clear
  • Finally

• Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Answer

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

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Answer
  • Obsessive

• Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Star

• 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

• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Life
  • Water
  • Can

• 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
  • Preferred

• Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Age
  • Answer
  • Details

• Well, we are. I'd like to know when you're going to answer the questions?

  

  Lesley Stahl
  • Know
  • Questions
  • Answer

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

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Answer

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