Answer Quotes

• The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Answer
  • Governments
  • Harsh

• Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Sense
  • Conversation
  • Preshcool Child

• However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Words
  • Answer
  • Knock

• Veep is my priority. Veep is my home, but I have nothing but obviously, good thoughts and really want Curb to be Curb. So anything I can do, as long as Veep is not getting hurt, I guess is the answer.

  

  David Mandel
  • Hurt
  • Really
  • Priority

• When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Answer
  • Whisper

• The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Problem
  • Research
  • View

• I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Music
  • Direction

• I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

  

  Josh Fox
  • Energy
  • Late
  • Transforming

• The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Question
  • Chance

• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Birth
  • Europe
  • Created

• An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Discard
  • Armour

• I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

  

  Joseph Kosinski
  • Movies
  • Questions
  • Answer

• I understand that it's a volatile environment. Certainly I have tough enough skin, so have at it. There's no way to properly answer that question so I won't try.

  

  Brian Billick
  • Question
  • Environment
  • Skin

• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Philosophy
  • Answer
  • Affirmation

• ...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

  

  Amy Hill Hearth
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Solve

• No answer is a clear answer.

  

  Billy Meier
  • Answer
  • Clear

• Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Never
  • Made

• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Talent
  • Hollywood
  • Give Up

• We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Hear

• What demands an answer but asks no question? A A telephone.

  

  Andy Griffiths
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Telephone

• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Forgiving
  • Prayers
  • Suspicious

• He still must answer this vital question directly.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Question
  • Answer
  • VItal

• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  

  Euripides
  • Question
  • Learn
  • Answer

• I've often been asked, do I like the New Look Batman better than the old look. My answer to that question is, Emphatically, no!!

  

  Bob Kane
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Batman

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