The Answers Quotes

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

The questions are more important than the answers.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death.

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.

A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

The problem is always sin, and the answer is always the Gospel.

You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.