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Quotes About Answer

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
~ Aristotle
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
~ Phil Ochs
The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.
~ Tag Cavello
God's silence is an answer itself.
~ Paul Gitwaza
God answers all our heartfelt petitions. He may answer no, or yes, or wait, or maybe. Yet there's one prayer for which he has only one answer, and the answer is yes. 'Thy will be done.' There is a caveat. One must pray it with a surrendered heart.
~ Jan Karon
To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
~ Janet Jackson
The Resistance astromechs classified Black One as a high-communications-volume interface. BB-8 searched his memory for an organic equivalent of that classification, and found a high-confidence answer almost immediately. Black One was a pain in the ass.
~ Jason Fry
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
~ Jason Reitman
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
~ e e cummings
It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.
~ E.L. Doctorow
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
~ E.M. Forster
P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Often already, during the fortnight that he had passed under her roof, when she enquired how he meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered paradoxically: Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it instead of spending it--
~ Edith Wharton
The idea that any rash answer might provoke an unpleasant outburst tempered her disgust with caution, and she answered with a laugh.
~ Edith Wharton
He might have to spend the rest of his presidency answering to the two classes of people always most vociferous in hard times: the bewildered and the guilty.
~ Edmund Morris
A mother with an infant but without a father was not welcomed in the new world. "You kilt it." "She kilt it." "I had no milk for it," she answered back.
~ Edna O'Brien
On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.
~ Edward Gorey
What is history?, our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects our own position in time, and forms part of our answer to the broader question, what view we take of the society in which we live.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
~ Albert Schweitzer
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
~ Alessandro Barrico
If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed, that licence is a rule.
~ Alexander Pope
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.
~ Elmore Leonard
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
~ Norman Mailer