The Answers Quotes

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.

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

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Never answer anonymous letters.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

People often ask if I have a favorite song that I've written. And the answer is yes, but it depends on the day and what mood I'm in.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

Love is the question; Love is the answer.

Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.