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Quotes About Answer

Because you are not fit to go there,' I answered. 'All sinners would be miserable in heaven.
~ Emily Bronte
Do you know where the wicked go after death? They go to hell, was my ready and orthodox answer . . . What must you do to avoid it? I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come was objectionable: I must keep in good health , and not die." (Jane Eyre)
~ Emily Bronte
Cthulhu was ready for that one; he had been practicing his answer for that very question with Hastur the Unspeakable only the previous night.
~ Eoin Colfer
So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are only making unnecessary problems for yourself.
~ Epictetus
Will the wise man refuse to engage with such a person, and avoid all dialogue and examination? [26] But of all people he is supposed to be most adept in argument, expert in question and answer, and proof against sophisms and deceit. [27] Or will he engage with him but without caring whether he argues in a confused or careless manner? In that case how then will he be the sort of man we imagine him to be?
~ Epictetus
You can't question what has no answer. If I knew then it would not be true love. It would have because attached. I love you because this reason, or that reason. Real love has no because attached.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
C'è sempre una soluzione [...]
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
~ Erich Fromm
The question is the same, for it springs from the same ground: the human situation, the conditions of the human existence. The answer varies. The question can be answered by animal worship, by human scrifice or military conquest, by indulgence in luxury, by ascetic renunciation, by obsessionnal work, by artistic creation, by the love of God, and by the love of Man.
~ Erich Fromm
There is so much unnecessary loneliness in the world. Marriage is not necessarily the answer, at least not for women. But an enduring friendship is a great gift and a blessing.
~ Amanda Quick
Beginning of the teaching for life,The instructions for well-being…Knowing how to answer one who speaks,To reply to one who sends a message.
~ Amenemope
Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.
~ American Proverb
James fought the temptation to repeat "traditional chromosomal energy signature," just because it was such an awesome example of erudition gone weird, and thought hard to answer her question.
~ Amy Lane
Eine gute Frage ist oft schon die halbe Antwort. Viele Probleme entstehen nicht aus fehlenden Antworten, sondern aus ungenauen Fragen.
~ Andreas Eschbach
he was taken in a secr[e]t council & you told him you had paid my expence &c—200 Dr Foster said he never had a secret interview.— with Dr Goforth. and stated what he [blank] [p. [83]] Joseph have I ever misused you any way? Foster. said I do not feel at liberty to answer this qu[es]tion under existing circumstances.— did I ever misuse you? do not feel at libe[r]ty to answer under existing circumstances.—
~ Andrew H. Hedges
The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.
~ Chester Brown
If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
~ Edward Witten
I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.
~ George Muller
I really prayed and asked God for my first film.
~ Anthony Hemingway
God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer.
~ Paula White
I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I went to church, and I feel like I got my prayer answered.
~ John 5
What I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.
~ Kent Brantly
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
~ James E. Faust
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
~ Raymond Chandler