logo

Quotes About Answers

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
~ Jim Butcher
People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma -- and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers. Hell, He might even like it.
~ Jim Butcher
You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
~ Jim Butcher
She studied my face for a long minute. Are you going to help my mom? It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?
~ Jim Butcher
Investigate the faeries. Great. That was absolutely guaranteed to get complicated before I got any useful answers. If there was one thing faeries hated doing, it was giving you a straight answer, about anything. Getting plain speech out out of one is like pulling out teeth. Your own teeth. Through your nose.
~ Jim Butcher
Now then Captain He turned back to Grim Your have questions, I answers, shall we see if they match? Please Grim said I appear to be your guest, have I you to thank for caring for me? Ferrus' shoulders sagged in evident disappointment Oh.... apparently they do not match... I was going to say strawberries!
~ Jim Butcher
You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?
~ Jim Butcher
a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.
~ Jim Thompson
Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
~ Joan Didion
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
~ Jodi Picoult
There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.
~ Jodi Picoult
I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Every answer you seek is already somewhere in your circle of influence!
~ Unknown
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
~ Erica Jong
In times of struggle there's no need to give up. Let God be your ticket to solving the struggles. With a prayer he shall give you the answers you need and it doesn't matter how long his answer takes to come. In the end his answers shall come.
~ Unknown
They really don't care about your answers if they ask you wrong questions.
~ Unknown
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
~ Vince Cable
the Bible is necessary for knowledge leading to salvation, instructions leading to spiritual growth, answers to the ultimate questions, and for knowledge about reality. It is the necessary precondition for all knowledge and for any rational apprehension of God and the universe.
~ Unknown
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~ Voltaire
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~ W. H. Auden
America has many faults, one of the worst being that Americans always want answers to everything, and when you tell them there aren't any, are very upset. But when they are in a tough spot they do look forward...
~ W.H. Auden
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
~ John Cage
I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.
~ Mandy Moore
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
~ Peter Ustinov