We never understand what we're praying; and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A gentle answer turns away wrath. - Gary Chapman
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. - Mark Twain
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. - Harold Ramis
I find people with depression are like a broken clocks, and clock maker after clock maker will try to fix you, but sometimes time itself is the answer. - isaac andrews
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson
All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told.Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold - Gilded tombs do worms infold;Had you been as wise as bold,Young in limbs, in judgement old,Your answer had not been inscrolled - Fare you well; your suit is cold. - William Skakespeare
Before passing judgementon someone’s choices,stop and look at the questionsthey were trying to answer. - Domonique Bertolucci
If you know the results, why will you try to solve the problem? If you know the meaning of life, why will you try to understand it? Sometimes it is better not to know the answer. - Debasish Mridha
If you feel completely satisfied, you have hit the right answer, coz if not? you may have missed something, It could be the answer itself or it could be both your prayer and the answer! - Bradley B. Dalina
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts
We are never short on opportunities to answer the call to assist the widows, support the homeless, stand up for justice and to preach Christ crucified and resurrected. That is the true calling of every believer. - Andrena Sawyer
Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again. - Sarah Thebarge
I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. - Rosaleen Love
One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job. - R. N. Prasher
i lost a whole continent.a whole continent from my memory.unlike all other hyphenated americans my hyphen is made of blood.when africa says hellomy mouth is a heartbreakbecause i have nothing in my tongueto answer her.i don’t know how to say hello to my mother. - african-american ii nayyirah waheed
Life without meaningcannot be borne.We find a missionto which we're sworn--or answer the callof Death's dark horn.Without a gleaningof purpose in life,we have no vision,we live in strife,--or let blood fallon a suicide knife. - Dean Koontz
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? - C.S. Lewis
How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God. - Sorin Cerin
Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that. - Shandy L. Kurth
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. - Ambrose Bierce
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake! - Harper Lee
When you believe something so strongly in your heart, never accept no for an answer! Keep pushing forward and prepare for that moment when someone tells you Yes! - Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. - Meryl S. Kavanagh
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjöld
Reincarnation do you know this word??No?Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer! - Deyth Banger
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. - Thomas Merton
To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer. - Eric Roxas
you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer - John Geddes
Let your actions be the answer to criticism. - Debasish Mridha
Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master? - Saurabh Sharma
How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it. - Matthew Donnelly
There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. - Antonia Michaelis
God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'! And you may become upset because he said no. But open up your eyes and look around at the things he said yes to. - Jerome D. Williams
If we defy the odds and ask, GOD will defy the odds and answer. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
If someone asks you that "Where do u want to see yourself 10 years from now down this line"?Well,i would like to see myself above the line,that should be your answer. - Sachin Panwar
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.
Sometimes, the answer is right outside your door...so open it & see things in a new light - J.L. Hunt
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich
You're the only one I ever believe in, the answer that could never be found. - Goo Goo Dolls
Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why? - Csaba Gabor-B.
The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers. - J.M. Porup
Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go. - Robin Dabhi
An answer gone unanswered will be answered in a parallel universe. Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions. - Vishwanath S J
A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment - Gary Hopkins
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde
Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer. - Sarvesh Jain
All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted. - Deyth Banger
I asked myself one day, 'Would it be humane of me to completely destroy my mind and soul for the music?' I knew immediately that the answer was no, so I knew I had to. - Matt Borneman
I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer; even to save our lives. - Empress Theodora
People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer. - Brian Wicker
When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people! - Israelmore Ayivor
When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Karl Kraus
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. - Betty Friedan
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. - Ellen Hopkins
There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept. - Shannon L. Alder
Call on the Saviour. He will answer you. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. - Chinese Proverb
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. - Viktor Frankl
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. - Bible
These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago. - Milton Friedman
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed - Michael Burgess
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' - Theodore Roosevelt
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"
The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank. - Richard Castle
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song. - Gregory Colbert
You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command. - Travis Luedke
The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man. - Gordon W. Allport
I have two questions for you: one, what kind of person do you want to be? Two, what kind of music would I find on your playlist? If any answer in the second question is in conflict with your answer to the first question, you may want to make a few changes. - Justin Young
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.... - Ziad K. Abdelnour
When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! - Matt Groening
He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God’s time for the rest. - Alexander MacLaren
The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust. - Anthony Liccione
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray. - Corrie ten Boom
The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again - Steven Magee
He asked me IF I MISSED YOU. I didn't answer and walked away keeping my eyes closed. And then shedding a tear whisper: So much - Elena ristic
Question everything, unless it's the answer - Benny Bellamacina
For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question. - Richard Diaz
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." - Mark Twain
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. - Meladee McCarty
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali
People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answer questions. They are basically focused on what they do not know, and only exceptionally on what they do know. - Eraldo Banovac
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. - Erma Bombeck
The Quran holds the answer to all. Have you opened it? - Zarina Bibi
Mathematics is life: the workings (process) is more important than the answer (proof/product). A wrong process cannot make a right product. - Dele Ayo Bankole
The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta. - Deyth Banger
Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer. - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke
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
People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes. - Liz Rosenberg
I've got to tell you that my vocation, my true calling, is serving others. Medicine is my avocation; it's part of how I answer my calling, but it's not all of it. I minister to bodies, but I also minister to hearts and souls. - Doc, Finding Normal
My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams? Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible. - Matthew Donnelly
The answer to 1984 is 1776 - Alex E. Jones
My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. - Abhijit Naskar
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' - Aaron Copland
To a quick question, give a slow answer. - Italian Proverb
We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment. - Dana Arcuri
So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. "I hope we're still okay."I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess. - Chloe Neill
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. - Woody Allen
The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question. - Jonathan A.C. Brown
So… die!?When is going to die this guy or that woman in series!????Kind of fucked up… knowing the answer and continue watching.( Dexter, Person of Interest, Breaking Bad - On thoughts) - Deyth Banger
He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge - Respicius Rwehumbiza
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? - Lily Tomlin
If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means Next Opportunity. - Jerhia
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. - Charles M. Schulz
How does a poor country defeat rich ones? Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it. Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows? But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel. Currency! Indeed. - Neal Stephenson
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer
Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Every answer asks a more beautiful question - e e cummings
A good question is the shortcut to a good answer. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be. - Kaitlin Hollon
The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it! - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
God's silence is an answer itself. - Paul Gitwaza
Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel - Jeremy Aldana
Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you. - Laura Ruby
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel - Joan Didion
How should they answer?
Two questions I'm pondering:1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change? - Richie Norton
Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle - Radhe Maa
The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind. - Even Engesland
How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often! - Al Munoz
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate - Marvin Gaye
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. - Confucius
It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Publilius Syrus
What you are is a question only you can answer. - Lois McMaster Bujold
God must have a weird sense of values, and if there’s a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He’s going to have a lot to answer for. - Philip Appleman
My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right. - Anonymous
If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means "Next Opportunity". - Jerhia
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde
Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears.
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see it's not the answer.
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down. - Stephanie Klein
Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.) - Jeffrey Cranor
Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer. - Debasish Mridha
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question.
The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible. - Sunday Adelaja
Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips
You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! But there’s another part of me that asks what if? What if you’re not supposed to be with Ren? What if you were supposed to be the answer to my prayers? Not his! - Colleen Houck
You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer. - Shmuel HaNagid
Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. - Jack Kerouac
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus
Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more. - Julie Ann Elliott-Morton
Answer when opportunity knocks". Be careful about that. Many "opportunities" are traps dressed as treasures. - Andrea L'Artiste
You are God’s masterpiece; and as long as you answer to His purpose for you, with faith and in prayer, He can never fail you. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything. - Donna Lynn Hope
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. - David Levithan
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. - Eudora Welty
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
True...I hear voices in my head keep talking to me. The good thing for now is...I never answer them back. - Timothy Pina
Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM - Geoffrey Thorne
They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face. - Srividya Srinivasan
And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,Since the world can in no way answer our craving,I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat. - Li Bai
Your personal problem will bring national answer! - Paul Gitwaza
Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays. - Nikki Rowe
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France. - Thomas Jefferson
Never ask questions you don't want the answer to. - Pantea Konn
I may be 65 tomorrow, but i have no plans to 'let go.My psychiatrist asked me the same thing. He said he wanted to give me a pill so I wouldn’t obsess so much over momentary things. I told him I don’t want a pill. I want an answer. - Yuvika Mathur
I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun! - Steven Magee
when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page. - Nabil TOUSSI
You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept No for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept No for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demanding — you’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking. - Amanda Palmer
The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ‘‘Did the professor respect you? - Kwame Anthony Appiah
To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger. - Kathleen M. Rodgers
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it! - Lynn Johnston
Today I got the answer why we keep on believing that the person who left us, is still in love with us, if we don't we will never be able to love again. - Tushar Chauhan
A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all. - Tom Holt
Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me. - Tamora Pierce
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. - Steve Jobs
You are asking me questions I cannot answer. All I ask is that you do not fear Avanti’s judgement and that you live your life from this point, as if it were the only life you had. Make the most of each day you live, make every moment count.’~Elden RothDeathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage - Martyn Stanley
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Sir Winston Churchill
There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer. - Dejan Stojanovic
It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to. - Tyler Perry
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. - Ayn Rand
Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?and the correct answer is Not really. - Auliq a
If we dare to ask, GOD will dare to answer. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus
Never answer a critic, unless he's right. - Bernard M. Baruch
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. - George Jones
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
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. - John Lennon
Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it. - Jack White
Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Maybe it’s not good trying to answer the question ‘What is my purpose in life?’ Maybe the better question is: ‘How can I make someone’s life better TODAY? - Steven Aitchison
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. - Mark Twain
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside. - Jane Goodall
There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. - Amy Winehouse
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? - Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer. - Dillon Burroughs
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time. - Stephen King
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. - Lee Jampolsky
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty." - Theodore Roosevelt
I'm like the Pythagorean theorem. Not too many people know the answer to my game.
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. - Abdourahman A. Waberi
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. - E.L. Doctorow
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunningham
Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer. - Emma Forrest
If people say They don't Believe there's a God or his son Jesus then answer me this! who's name do they call out when they get hurt? also on the other side of the spectrum who's name do they call out when making love? well? there's your answer think about it - Lawrence A Bergeron
The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people- those who live to dreamand those who dream to liveAsk them the question about death if they can truly conceive - Munia Khan
You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. - Rumman Bin Sadiq
People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters - Henna Sohail
What are you doing today that serves the greater mission for your life? Once you can answer that question without batting an eye, that's when you're really on to something. - Chris Hill
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. - Anton Chekhov
The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious. - Raheel Farooq
Every problem has a solution, even if we do not know the answer - Catherine Miller
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer. - Barack Obama
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. - Jack Kerouac
God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check. - Jodi Picoult
Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995. - Sharon L. Reddy
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. - Maya Angelou
The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. - Shannon L. Alder
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer - Douglas Adams
As a business leader you have to ask yourself, Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty? If the answer is no, FIX IT! - Steve Maraboli
Solutions are not the answer.
It is raining in my heart.Humanity is shedding a tear.I asked, Who is suffering?Is it my mother?Silence.No answer.Everyone has a mother,And she always suffers.Why as a child do we let our mothers suffer?I could not get an answer. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer. - Bible Review
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. - Winston S. Churchill
She used to think alone was the answer. Alone would stop the whispers and the taunts. Alone couldn't get her into any more trouble. Alone meant not getting hurt. Now, she'd give anything to see another human being. To hear someone call her name - Kathryn Holmes
Your mind has a flood of questions.There is but one teacherWho can answer them.Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart. - Sri Chinmoy
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. - Anthony Liccione
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. - Piet Hein
A wise man's question contains half the answer. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion. - Martin Scorsese
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer. - General Douglas MacArthur
People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will? - James D. Watson
When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question. - Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla
Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better. - Matthew Donnelly
Anger always has a reason but love is always the answer. - Debasish Mridha
In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you're stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more! - Rob Liano
Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. - Ashlee Vance
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S. Thompson
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Like a kiss on the lips is the one who gives an honest answer. - Bible Proverbs 24 26
Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough? - Donna VanLiere
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! - J.K. Rowling
Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer. - Gabriella Jording
You will always be the answer, when somebody asks me what I'm thinking about. - Lisa Brooks
Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? - Yann Martel
The shortest answer is the doing the thing.
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. - Elbert Hubbard
God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. - Fanny J. Crosby
It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer. - Stephen Richards
Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself. - Salman Mansuri
today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question.... - vicky vora
When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you. - Auliq Ice
When people complain me that, they suffer a lot my answer will be the same forget your past, live with present and don't wait for your future. - Piyush Paudyal
Sometimes I think I look like a sheep between wolves so I answer where is shepherded? Sometimes I think I am the wolf so I answer where are the sheep-dogs? - Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. - George R.R. Martin
Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,I stand in the dark and answer toMy life, this shirt I want to take off,which is on fire . . . - Charles Wright
Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. - Chloe Thurlow
He who has a question will always be able to find the answer. - Debasish Mridha
I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage. - James Thurber
I dun knw things get trappedIn my mindThen itss smethin That I wanna find I dun get the answer Is there anyone listenin to me No one there to seeTo see the pain and the agony Inside ur beautiful heartTo see that u kissed the painAnd kicked everythin apart - B. Bhardwaz
When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is. - Larry Burkett
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes. - Sallie Krawcheck
Don't say NO for an answer - Ericson Eusebio
Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer! - Evinda Lepins
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every call and every question has an answer and that is your love. - Debasish Mridha
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. - Emily Saliers
To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love. - Kamand Kojouri
They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,"Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king. - William Stafford
Do you still do the clubs?Jake shakes his head. You do the clubsbecause you can’t find what you need at home. I’ve got everything I need. I’ve got the answer to needs I didn’t even know I had. - Josh Lanyon
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things – questions such as How did everything begin? What are we all here for? What is the point of living? - Sir Peter Medawar
If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by what we think I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to. - Aaron Blaylock
The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children. - Kelly Bartlett
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. - Sammy Davis Jr.
Sometimes people ask why I'm so willing to give out #free copies of my books and the answer is pretty simple. Money is not why I write.So why would I keep someone from enjoying that because they can't afford my book? If your in the arts for money your picking the wrong job. - Adam Snowflake
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
I guess the all and all answer in life is what Facades you want to believe in the most. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out. - Shannon L. Alder
Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. - Robert McKee
He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls. - Sara Miles
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. - Abraham Lincoln
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? - Voltaire
When your destiny is calling, answer The call. - Jeanette Coron
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. - Erica Jong
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. - Nicholas Negroponte
Writing isn't a choice. It's a calling. So answer the damn phone already! - T.N. Suarez
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman
When someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer just yell, 'Figure it out!'
If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and the people who give you the answers, Wolves - Theodore Coldiron
If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. - Steve Stockman
You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer. - Steve Goodier
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. - Clay Christensen
Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore! - Mehmet Murat ildan
When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." - Arthur Schnabel
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. - Heather Armstrong
This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness. - Jay Griffeths
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr! - Jennifer Donnelly
I understand a lot of stuff for a lot of people, how??You won't get the answer! - Deyth Banger
Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind. - Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is the Best Weapon, Experience is the Best Teacher,Respect is the Best Admirer, But Life Is the Best Answer - Look Im A Cat
To lie for me is something rare, some people think that I lie because they don't understand me quite well. But sometimes like today I just predict an answer a part of the answer in math the other can be found with more thinking. - Deyth Banger
I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later) - Deyth Banger
Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you. - Paul McCartney
A question impresses me more than an answer. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
In every situation, there is a sacred answer. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. - Howard Tayler
it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer. - Edward Shirley
I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. - Nick Cave
Love is the only answer to every question - Rasheed Ogunlaru
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. - Patrick Ness
The Question is actually the answer - Jerril Thomas Abraham
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. - Loren Weisman
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
Love is the answer. - A.D. Posey
if love is not the answer, make sure to change the question. - Charlyn Khater
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. - Lao Tzu
Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer. - Auliq Ice
Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question. - A.E. Samaan
She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions. - Debasish Mridha
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. - Bible
The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume. - Dee Williams
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer. - Vera Nazarian
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask - Rich Ridgeway
The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens. - Robert M. Price
I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well. - Glenn Beck
The man who practices the prophet's art is a fool; for if he happens to give an adverse answer, he makes himself disliked by those for whom he takes the omens; while if he pities and deceives those who are consulting him, he wrongs the gods.
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children. - Marguerite Duras
Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If the answer of your question is the question of your answer be Nacre - Hamza Khan Takkar
After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it? - Deyth Banger
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness! - Bernard of Clairvaux
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 'Yes' is the answer.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
I don't know how to hate; It requires the same force as love for me. APATHY is the answer I find. - Anshika Verma
[The answer of to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution. - Solon
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. - Émile Zola
Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach. - Angelica Hopes
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. - Jim Carrey
My Dove, withhold not thy love, for my heart is dagger-ed and deeply pierced by thy silence. It is ravished, and its functions it call not to remembrance, for I am sick my Love, my Dove, I am with love...If you call I will answer, for I am not far from thee. - Solomon Debisette
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. - William Gurnall
Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose. - Shannon L. Alder
The beauty of life depends on how you respond not in how true you answer. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. - Nikki Giovanni
remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? - Sandra Day O'Connor
Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear. - Kung Fu Panda
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack. - Richter cartoon caption
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. - Hortense Calisher
Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill? - Matthew McConaughey
We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! - Widad Akreyi
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no question- love is the answer - Rasheed Ogunlaru
In times of need I call unto you Abba Father and you answer. - Euginia Herlihy
We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question. - Maurice J. Dubois
When a person asks a queer person why they like the things they do, you can't help but think that it's a little rude for them to be asking, because there is no answer, we were just born that way. Just like straight people, you were born the way you were born. So leave it. - Mekiah Johnson
Life is a question, to live it positively is the Answer - Samar Sudha
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. - Theodore Roosevelt
What's the reason behind success and failure. The answer is simple ME - shivangi lavaniya
We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection - Anna R.
Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place. - Anonymous
The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open. - Maurice Blanchot
Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. - Dejan Stojanovic
The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it. - Ibnoulkhatib Yahya
You need to GIVE UP on methods that always give you wrong results... No matter how committed you are with a wrong formular, it always gives a wrong answer. Give up! - Israelmore Ayivor
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. - Dejan Stojanovic
P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty - Ivan Illich
The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? - James Thurber
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. - Dan Quayle
The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you’re wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no. - Christy Leigh Stewart
Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine. - Shannon L. Alder
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation. - Noam Chomsky
To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer. - Criss Jami
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. - Eugène Ionesco
My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere. - Ray Price Billy
The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question. - Michael Chabon
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. - Niccolò Machiavelli
In every situation, there is a sacred answer. You must search and seek. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. - Carl Sandburg
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. - Desmond Morris
So much of life isn’t about having the right answer; it’s about knowing the right question. - Duane Hewitt
If people say They don't Believe on God or Jesus then answer me this! who's name do they call out when they get hurt?and on the other side of the spectrum who's name do they call out when making love? well? there's your answer think about - Lawrence A Bergeron
A gun is to your head and you have one phone call. If they answer, You die. If they don't, you're free. Who are you calling ? - -uchenna Durugo
They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more! - Anonymous
When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people. - Steven Magee
Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer. - Ali Ezzat Bigovich
Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....
There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action. - J.R. Rim
It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person. - Shannon L. Alder
The shortest way to get to the real answer is via the Imaginary. - Joanna Tilsley
Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative. - Deyth Banger
The answer to why we exist does not exist, at least not where most of us look for it. We must look inward not out. We should not ask this question of life, but rather of ourselves - and then answer it. - Glenn A. Maltais
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. - Edward P. Tryon
A soft answer turneth away wrath.