Top 100 Quotes About No Answers
#1. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway
Richard Wagamese
#2. They say practice mindfulness, practice meditation, practice kindness, practice breathing. I found no answers and wanted to practice driving a tank through a department store.
Jon Konrath
#4. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins
#5. You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.
Nadine Gordimer
#6. What more could I have done when I did not know that to love is both to seek and to be sought? For me love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given.
Yukio Mishima
#7. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#8. You can literally go on and on and on with the blame game, but let me tell you, it only causes more heartache. You will be no better off and will still have no answers.
Sharon Critchfield
#9. Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
Ray Bradbury
#10. We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
Peter Ustinov
#11. These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Wendell Berry
#13. Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.
James Rozoff
#14. If there seems no answers then create and apply them.
Steven Redhead
#16. I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.
Jacquetta Hawkes
#17. I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok..
Donal O'Callaghan
#20. Have you ever considered that too many answers are the same as no answers at all? - Tyrion
George R R Martin
#21. The only thing we'll get from trying to figure out where another path would have taken us are questions there are no answers to, and heatbreak that can't be healed. Regardless of how we got there, all any of us can do is move forward frome where we are.
Mia Sheridan
#22. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
George Carlin
#23. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector
#24. Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again and again, against circumstance and history... What we hope life might be, again and again, against what we see it has been. In hope, there is a reason to continue.
Israel Horovitz
#25. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
Barry Lopez
#26. Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
#27. Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.
Robert M. Pirsig
#28. What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers - there are only questions.
Norman Mailer
#29. In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.
Elie Wiesel
#30. The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.
Bryan Chapell
#31. She would expect explanations from her Main Man, and while I had invented mansplaining and was its foremost practitioner, I had no answers to give her.
Rick Riordan
#32. A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion not clarity ... No answers
Dinesh Kumar
#33. My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
Javier Bardem
#34. Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond
#35. The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
Marilyn Monroe
#36. Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions
Susan Smith
#37. But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.
Marcus Sakey
#38. I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really ... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
Mandy Moore
#39. 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.
Macaulay Culkin
#40. As long as I have questions and no answers I'll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things happen before they happen? If before the pre-prehistory there were already the apocalyptic monsters? If this story doesn't exist now, it will.
Clarice Lispector
#41. I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
#43. It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like.
Milan Kundera
#44. We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.
Michael Behe
#46. That's what you realized when you got older. When you were little, you thought you were just too young to understand the answers and that when you got older things would come into focus. Then you had to finally face the truth: There were no answers.
Anne Frasier
#47. When you look around and there are no answers, where do you go from there?
Aarti Patel
#48. As gardeners-without-borders we must ask ourselves bigger questions like: Where did these materials arise and at what cost to the place that begot them? Of course the synthetic fertilizer loses on every score; it's not even in the running. It gives us no answers; it ignores the questions.
Will Bonsall
#49. There are many questions in this world that have no answers.
Hiromu Arakawa
#50. There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
Frank Herbert
#51. There are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
Patricia MacLachlan
#52. [He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
Kate DiCamillo
#54. There are no explanations, there are no answers.
Jessica Lange
#55. My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
Karen Traviss
#56. You will find no answers here, just choices.
Brent Weeks
#58. All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.
G. B. Caird
#59. I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.
Lupe Fiasco
#60. And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
Stephen R. Donaldson
#61. You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you're a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don't expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I'm touched by you and fulfilled just by believing.
Chris Kraus
#62. Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
Dean Koontz
#63. Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.
Edmund Clowney
#64. There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.
Rebecca James
#65. Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
Tamora Pierce
#66. ...I have to have some answers."
"And what if there are no answers?"
She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.
Kathleen Tessaro
#67. Too often the man who complains the loudest has nothing of substance to say. Too often the man who complains the most provides no answers of solution.
Jayce O'Neal
#68. But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.
James McBride
#69. The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.
J.M. Porup
#71. In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.
Marty Rubin
#72. Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.
Lewis Carroll
#74. I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.
Karan Bajaj
#75. I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis
#76. Isn't life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?
Pawan Mishra
#77. You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor
#78. For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
P.L. Travers
#79. The mind knows no answers. The heart knows no questions.
Bronnie Ware
#80. The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers." Mr Badule looked at her. "You are very right, my sister. There is
Alexander McCall Smith
#81. I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
Martin Lewis Perl
#82. A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
Ernst Haas
#83. Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?
Rob Thomas
#84. The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
George Wald
#85. I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
Ted Danson
#86. Laying down a challenge means more than directing people to do it. It includes asking the hard questions that no one yet has the answers to and then backing off so that the people within the organization have the space to think through the questions, take ownership, and find the answers.
Liz Wiseman
#87. Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.
Christiana Figueres
#88. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#89. God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
Oswald Chambers
#90. I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.
Carl Sagan
#91. You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.
Laurie Graham
#92. I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.
Norbert Reithofer
#93. Don't you believe in death?" I yelled at him. "No," he answers, "and I don't believe in time either ...
James Purdy
#94. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#95. There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.
Carl T. Rowan
#96. I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.
Daniel Klein
#97. I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
Jim Bolger
#98. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.
Amanda Mosher
#99. Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.
River Phoenix
#100. Two people who share a secret no one else knows because no one else understands the way it is between us when our clothes are off and her breath is my breath and there are no more questions, just answers, and every single one is her name.
Lili Valente