The Answers Quotes

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don't. The goal is not to get people to share your core values. It's to get people who already share your core values.

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.

Love knows no answer for it does not question.

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING!

Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.