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Quotes About Answers

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
~ Joan Baez
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
~ Joan Baez
I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith
~ Joan Chittister
Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Julia specialized in answers. From the time she was old enough to speak, she'd bossed her sisters around, pointing out their problems and providing solutions. Sometimes her sisters found this irritating, but they would also admit that having a "master troubleshooter" in their
~ Ann Napolitano
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.
~ Anna Akhmatova
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
~ Anne Bishop
But that thread isn't Andulvar. It should be, since he's the Master of the Guard, but it's someone else. Someone who isn't here yet, someone who can guide me to the answers I need to walk that other path." *The thread not tell you its name?* "It says the mirror is coming. What kind of answer is—" Tensing, Jaenelle scrambled to her knees. "Daemon," she whispered. "Daemon.
~ Anne Bishop
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
~ Anne Bishop
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.
~ Charles Bock
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
~ James Gray
We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.
~ Danielle de Niese
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
~ Flann O'Brien
Benchmark has got a lot of playability. You can sit with your family and friends, and you'll all have an opinion about what the answer is. What's amazing is when some of the answers are revealed, it creates even more discussion.
~ Paddy McGuinness
Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
~ Elaine Chao
In this job, you accept criticism and give answers on the field.
~ Gianluigi Buffon
I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people.
~ Brad Goreski
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
~ Haruki Murakami
There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.
~ Michael Fassbender
While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
~ Sam Kean
The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.
~ Gina Gershon
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste
wish I had an answer for her. Something simple like Because, or poignant, such as Every child deserves to be found, or defiant, like Why not? But the truth is, she's probably heard it all by now. A whole torrent of words and reasons. Instead of being given the one thing she wants most: answers.
~ Lisa Gardner