Top 100 An Answer Quotes
#2. Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
Naomie Harris
#3. All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.
Tracey Emin
#4. We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
Vera Farmiga
#5. Don't think that denial is the absence of an answer, pray until you get one answer or the other.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
Rachel Weisz
#7. An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#9. He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.
Mervyn Peake
#10. I may never know when an answer to prayer is going to arrive, but I know that God will never fail me.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#11. This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.
Lorraine Hansberry
#12. The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.
James S.A. Corey
#13. The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.
Dee Williams
#14. People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
Lech Walesa
#15. Brynn began to turn away, but he grabbed her by the arms. "Ah. Ah. No running away. I asked you a question, I expect an answer. How have I played with you? There's no doubt in my mind that I'd remember doing such and I guarantee you would.
Madison Thorne Grey
#16. Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
David Levithan
#17. I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer.
Mark Lawrence
#18. Knock upon yourself as upon a door, and when the door opens an answer can be found.
Richard Zimler
#19. Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?
Yann Martel
#20. In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
Floyd Skloot
#21. Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.
Henri Nouwen
#22. Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.
Al Green
#23. You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn't owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you're going to have to give up your right to understanding. It's called trust.
Bill Johnson
#24. Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus Zusak
#25. If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.
Sergey Akhromeyev
#26. I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen Hawking
#27. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
Plutarch
#28. This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
Adam Clarke
#29. What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you
Alex Blumberg
#30. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!
Louis Sachar
#31. Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take "no" as an answer to some questions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. Lord you are the source of my strength, you are real; You have an answer for every question I might have. I thank you Lord for your unconditional love, you are everything to me.
Euginia Herlihy
#33. That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
Hal Sutton
#34. Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
Milton H. Erickson
#35. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.
Charles Duhigg
#37. Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears
Gerald C. Meyers
#38. She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace ... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.
Sophie Kinsella
#39. Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself ... Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.
Michael Beckwith
#40. Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE Self Execution, many have said that's a terrible name. I ask should killing yourself sound good?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#41. Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#42. An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.
David A. Bednar
#43. But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin'
they're ... they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
Ben Stein
#45. You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.
Rachel Spangler
#46. When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
Doris Roberts
#48. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
John Tukey
#49. He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.
Robert M. Pirsig
#50. How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.
William B. Irvine
#51. Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.
Pearl S. Buck
#52. I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.
Chris Lowell
#53. You're gonna be mine, do you hear me? No matter what I have to do, I want you to be my girl." He kisses my noise, cheeks, and forehead. "I won't take no for an answer, and whether or not you want me to, I'm gonna find your pieces so I can put you back together.
Gail McHugh
#54. I'm a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.
Mhairi McFarlane
#55. Wrath what do you say"
"Fuck' came the reply
"Appropriate word choice, my lord, but not really an answer".
J.R. Ward
#56. Me too, Arch," Jeremiah said. "I want an answer about my request to transfer. Even now, my balls are shrinking in anticipation of going back out in the cold. I said I'd give my life protecting humanity, but my balls were never in the bargain.
Rose Wynters
#57. Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
Leo Buscaglia
#58. Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again.
Sarah Thebarge
#59. Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
Aeschylus
#60. The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
#61. In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.
Robert Redford
#62. Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.
Hans Christian Andersen
#63. To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
V.S. Naipaul
#64. That's an answer in the same way that ketchup can be hair gel.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#66. I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.
Jeff VanderMeer
#67. No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.
Jeffrey Lang
#68. Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
Beeban Kidron
#69. Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
Mark Haddon
#70. Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.
Grey Owl
#71. (Reaching for the Bible on the end table.) There's an answer for every occasion in here. Like a map for life.
Max Lucado
#72. I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.
Randy Newman
#73. You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.
Ksenia Solo
#74. The brain is a wonderful thing. It will always give you an answer to the questions you ask. The problem comes from the questions you ask yourself. Your brain will only answer exactly what it is asked.
John Patrick Hickey
#75. What do you do?" I ask.
"I live."
"I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.
Jewel E. Ann
#76. Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.
Tariq Ramadan
#77. Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
Dan Brown
#78. The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming - what should I do? - with an answer taking shape: nothing.
Georges Perec
#79. The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#80. What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?
Dee Hock
#81. My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.
Megan Hart
#82. All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
#83. More likely a question than an answer these here all what I have written.
Deyth Banger
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Shilpi
#85. Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
Alexander Hamilton
#86. You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
Romare Bearden
#87. What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call
Sara Teasdale
#88. It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question: What is the meaning of la ilaha illa Allah? Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
#89. The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.
Morris Fishbein
#90. The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone
#91. What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
Alice Walker
#92. Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
Robert Breault
#93. An answer is planted in every question; never respond with a straight answer to a question that makes no sense to you.
Anonymous
#94. I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.
Richard Dawkins
#95. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question.
Markus Zusak
#96. Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.
Dorothee Solle
#98. An answer seeks to dissolve the question, a response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question, and seeks to remain in connection with it.
Lama Surya Das
#99. Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.
Dean Hughes
#100. What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.
Eric Hoffer
