Quotes About Answers

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children's future with your answers.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Are there bears in Western Virginia? she whispered. Cut it out, Caroline, said Eddie. But Beth gave a little gasp. Are there? If there are bears in West Virginia, they're way up in the mountains, Eddie said. Caroline knew that Eddie didn't know what she was talking about any more than Beth knew about bears, but she didn't ask any other questions because she didn't really want to know the answers.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he possessed an immovable self-assurance. He felt. He acted. He judged. The fear of being wrong that so characterized Achamian simply did not exist for Cutias Sarcellus. Where Achamian was ignorant of the answers, Sarcellus was ignorant of the questions. No certitude, she thought, could be greater.

Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute—not knowledge!

Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answers...God doesn't shout, He wispers, and in the wispers is the way.

Enigmas of physics, when deciphered, might produce a sublime light, but the answers to mysteries of human behavior seldom resulted in glorious revelations.

The world was a maze of mysteries and puzzles, but it was a world of rational design that did not present puzzles without answers. There was always an answer.

People from all over asked him what he'd found the hardest.

Prayers are always answered. Whether we like the answers or even recognize them is altogether another matter. Sounds

How long since she yearned? How long since she dared believe something so foolish as the idea that someone anywhere has the answers to questions she can't even put into words?

I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized that I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape . . . and it's a great relief!

I've spent more than twenty years looking for answers, Roger, and I can tell you only one thing: There aren't any answers, only choices. I've made a number of them myself, and no one can tell me whether they were right or wrong.

I've spent more than twenty years looking for answers, Roger, and I can tell you only one thing: There aren't any answers, only choices. I've made a number of them myself, and no one can tell me whether they were right or wrong.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

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.

Il tuo destino ha fatto molto scalpore a Costanza. Non vi era persona alla quale io chiedessi che non sapesse darmi una risposta.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

So when I let my head fall back under Sarah's kiss, the frenzy I trembled at just wasn't there. Instead, comfort and joy and simplicity and order and answers to questions I'd always supposed unanswerable, such as, why was I born? why a woman? why here? why now? A wonderful glowing spacious peacefulness came to us. There was so much time.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.