The Answers Quotes

#1. I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Kim Cattrall

#2. Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

Joe Mantello

#3. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Gorgias

#5. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

Randall Robinson

#6. There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Joseph Barrell

#7. 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

#8. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

Allison Winn Scotch

#9. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

James Rozoff

#13. God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

Oswald Chambers

#14. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.

K.D. Sarge

#15. If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. The morning, when I need to have opinions and answers across the board very quickly, is a constant fight between ease and inspiration, what will make our lives easier versus what will make us excited because we were ambitious.

Allison Silverman

#17. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

Ole Hallesby

#18. Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

Orson Scott Card

#19. Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

T.A. Barron

#20. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

E.W. Howe

#21. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Richard Wagamese

#22. As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Ken Jennings

#23. A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#24. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.

Josh Ross

#25. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#26. 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

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

Patti Page

#28. It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Norman Cousins

#29. One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.

Naomi Alderman

#30. Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

Aryn Kyle

#31. But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Tom Lehrer

#32. How can I afford it? opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Michael Pollan

#34. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#35. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Wally Amos

#36. Maybe we can pray and God answers in ways we can't see and it doesn't all happen spontaneously. Maybe it's about the journey, too."

(Undercover Protector)

Elizabeth Goddard

#37. 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

#38. Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.

Eric Samuel Timm

#39. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

Timothy Keller

#40. 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

#41. From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

David Wolfe

#42. You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

Oswald Chambers

#43. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....

Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil

Amna Iqbal

#44. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

#45. If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

Jack Welch

#46. The Internet is great for things, like finding the answers to things you pretended to know or stalking people.

Shaun Sipos

#47. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

David G. McAfee

#48. I want to find the answers of my questions!

Deyth Banger

#49. We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Helen Thomas

#50. I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

Joy Harjo

#51. It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

Frederick Buechner

#52. When you can't find the answers inside yourself God will lead you to someone who does.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same answers but process things differently.

Gina Gallagher

#54. The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach

Bill Maher

#55. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

Richard Dawkins

#56. How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#57. Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

Warren Christopher

#58. Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.

Scott Abel

#59. A coach is someone skilled at unlocking your ideas with the right questions. A good coach knows that the answer to everything you need is within you.

Farshad Asl

#60. If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Sugata Mitra

#61. Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Walter Lippmann

#62. The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

#63. 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

#64. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.

Stephen King

#65. If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Ed Parker

#66. Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

Keith Laumer

#67. I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

Oren Peli

#68. We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

Max De Pree

#69. He looked to the sky for answers. I look at what's in front of me, what's around me, what's inside of me.

Moira Young

#70. All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?

Paul Washer

#71. Lend's dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire walk into a bar. "What'll you have?" the bartender asks. "We were thinking him," the vampire answers, eyeing the doctor.
Okay, jokes weren't my strong point.

Kiersten White

#72. Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods ... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.

J. Allen Hynek

#73. I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

Fred Eaglesmith

#74. 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?

Rivka Galchen

#75. Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.

Steven Weinberg

#76. I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

Jon Fitch

#77. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.

Mike Huckabee

#78. Awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her

Eckhart Tolle

#79. Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#80. To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

John Ruskin

#81. Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

Robin Jones Gunn

#82. What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.

Newt Gingrich

#83. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

John Lennon

#84. All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.

Gregory Crewdson

#85. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

Donnie Fritts

#86. Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Ralph Nader

#87. And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Norman Mailer

#88. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Rachel Cohn

#89. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo

#90. answers. I took another swig of water, screwed the cap back on and thought about the next place I must look for Doc. I did not like it

Rolland Love

#91. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

Bill Buxton

#92. We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#93. 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

#94. I hit the red END button on the phone. The word itself mocks me. Have I really destroyed any chance to be with Olivia? Do I really care if I have?
The answers are: I don't know and yes. In that order.

M. Leighton

#95. Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves

Oprah Winfrey

#96. 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

#97. The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

Klaus Schwab

#98. The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

Gordon Allport

#99. I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

Tom Shadyac

#100. All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Cecelia Ahern