Answer Given Quotes

#1. What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

John Buchan

#2. It is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

George Stigler

#3. Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.
(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.)

Henry Enfield Roscoe

#4. Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

Rebecca Goldstein

#5. For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee.

Edgar Cayce

#6. The
experience he'd gained during his years in the police force
had given him this unambiguous answer: there are no
murderers. Only ordinary people who commit murder

Henning Mankell

#7. The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.

William Bateson

#9. Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.

R.A. Lafferty

#11. I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Jon Meacham

#12. In evading his question, she'd given him his answer. His father had heard voices in his madness and now Raphael heard them, too.

Nalini Singh

#13. Most of us have nicknames - annoying, endearing, embarrassing.
But what about your true name?
It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.
Ever wonder why?
Your true name has the secret power to call you.

Vera Nazarian

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin's answer.

Nicole Eglinger

#17. I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

Aleksandar Hemon

#18. We Catholics are very much given to the Instant Answer. Fiction doesn't have any. It leaves us, like Job, with a renewed sense of mystery. St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. That is what the fiction writer, on his lesser level, hopes to do.

Flannery O'Connor

#19. You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

Markus Zusak

#20. I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. The answer can only be that God has given Adam free will, and therefore Adam may do things that God Himself cannot anticipate in advance.

Margaret Atwood

#22. God is willing to answer when we ask: ' Ask and it will be given to you; seek you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks received, and who seeke finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened(Matthew7:7-8, NKJV).

Euginia Herlihy

#23. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.

Robert M. Pirsig

#24. It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#25. Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#26. the many, many times in my life when I have pleaded this question "Why?" to those in power come back to me, as does the fact that I have never, ever been given an answer that's good enough for me.

Hope Jahren

#27. Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

David Jones

#28. The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

Roger Lewin

#29. I thought about it and decided that I wasn't going to attempt to answer life's greater mysteries
especially given all I was dealing with presently
and so I figured it best to stick with the plan.

Matthew Quick

#30. The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

Herbert Simon

#31. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

Ronald Reagan

#32. walk away with a more thorough knowledge of the subject, hopefully have found the answer to a question, or be given some good ideas to help in a situation relevant to them.

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#33. If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#34. To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

Robert Walser

#35. True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#36. He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#37. A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living ... No sensible answer can be given to the question ... because the question does not make any sense.

Erich Fromm

#38. Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

Rumi

#39. This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

C. JoyBell C.

#40. And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding. Wonder came into his face, and then he smiled in answer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#41. We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

Phil Harris

#42. The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

Vincent Bugliosi

#43. RBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?

Samuel Epstein

#44. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.

Jonathan Kozol

#45. Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. "There's nothing to tell." But

F Scott Fitzgerald

#46. Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

Connor Franta

#47. I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Roddy Doyle

#48. But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

Amy Grant

#49. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#50. Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

#51. I listened to the whine in my voice with a detached fascination. It was a false question. No answer would have pacified me. I had simply given in to a perverse need to ask, to expose and torment myself, and as soon as I heard the words, I experienced both relief and humiliation.

Siri Hustvedt

#52. I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

Damien Rice

#53. The manager frowned, as if the middle Baudelaire had given him the wrong answer.
That's the rooftop bathing salon," he said. "People who sunbathe aren't usually interested in library science, so they're not picky about the salon's location. Now get moving!

Lemony Snicket

#54. 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.

Gregory Bateson

#55. She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.

Stephen King

#56. All this natural misery," Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?

Dan Simmons

#57. My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.

Michael Dirda

#58. The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

Larry Niven

#59. Who the fuck're you?" he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn't given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. "None of your fucking business." "Well fuck you, too." "Fine," I said. "We are in accord." "Huh?

Stephen King

#60. In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#61. If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

Mandy Moore

#62. Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life ... The "why" of life makes it meaningful ... Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

Hu Shih

#63. I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.

Rowan Speedwell

#64. But he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong in justifying it.

Walter Scott

#65. He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.

Patrick Ness

#66. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Carl Jung

#67. What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.

Bill Drayton

#68. Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#69. Given a test question, every wrong answer you eliminate from options A - E increases your chances of getting the right answer by 20percent.
The more you identify what you should not be doing, the closer you get to the things you should do.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#70. one of the conditions or problems of having knowledge, that a seemingly simple question only has a simple answer if one's knowledge is simple, but simplicity is not truth, for the greater one's knowledge, the more one must consider if a fair answer is to be given.

Jordan Baker

#71. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

Mark Buchanan

#72. You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all - given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

Patrick O'Brian

#73. Be a prince; answer your God-given name ... Take those limitations off your life and rule your world.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#74. How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

Matt Stone

#75. The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

#76. Answering your calling inspires self-respect. It is not the accolades of others, but the choice to acknowledge yourself, choose yourself and answer your God-given calling that is the reward.

Shannon Tanner

#77. The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

Joseph Barrell

#78. The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#79. to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the residue which is called philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#80. The president [Barak Obama] had been asked some questions by George Stephanopoulos on a news show about whether it was a tax. And he had given an answer that you might read as him saying it wasn't a tax. I think what he said was, "It isn't a tax increase on all Americans."

Donald Verrilli Jr.