Top 100 There Are No Answers Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor
#8. 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
#9. ...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
#10. 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
#11. There are no explanations, there are no answers.
Jessica Lange
#13. There are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
Patricia MacLachlan
#14. There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
Frank Herbert
#15. When you look around and there are no answers, where do you go from there?
Aarti Patel
#17. 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
#19. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#20. 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
#21. These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.
Frederick Lenz
#22. 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
#23. 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
#26. 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
#27. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector
#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. 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
#30. The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
Marilyn Monroe
#31. 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
#32. There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.
Jimmy Sangster
#33. There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale
#34. There are no good answers for such tragedies and you'll drive yourself mad if you try to find what isn't there.
Matthew Quick
#35. When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
Jacque Fresco
#36. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
Henry Jenner
#37. There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.
Marshall Loeb
#38. And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
Mark Haddon
#39. There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
Charles T. Munger
#40. Forgiveness, cleansing, regeneration, the Holy Spirit, all answers to prayer, are given to faith and received by faith. There is no other way. This is common evangelical doctrine and is accepted wherever the cross of Christ is understood.
A.W. Tozer
#41. I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change ... Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.
Kevin Warwick
#42. the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever
Barry Lopez
#43. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#44. There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.
Brandon Sanderson
#46. There are no problems that can't be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can't solve the #problem, it's because you haven't found the right option ... But the answer is always there.
Will.i.am
#48. Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.
Antonia Michaelis
#49. 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
#50. There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
Samuel Johnson
#51. In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
Tom Peters
#52. Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."
Jack Canfield
#53. I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
Darin Strauss
#54. When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.
Brandon Sanderson
#55. I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.'
Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.
Wendy Mass
#56. Because you see darling, darling, there are no false questions. All questions in life are true questions. Answers may be false, but questions cannot be false. Sure,they can be dumb, they can be stupid, but never false.
Raymond Federman
#57. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#58. 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
#59. In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.
John Banville
#60. More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.
William J. Brennan
#61. Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.
Edward De Bono
#62. There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.
Diane Nelson
#63. We found some scientists think that there are basically three emotions. Others went up to 27. Others had 16. Some were in the middle. So we were kind of left with no definitive answer to our basic question - how many are there?
Pete Docter
#65. 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
#66. I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
Winona Ryder
#67. For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers?
R.A. Salvatore
#68. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve Krug
#69. Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).
Julian Baggini
#70. There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance.
Jon Krakauer
#71. This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.
Marie Osmond
#72. If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
Francis Schaeffer
#73. There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
Meher Baba
#74. There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.
George W. Buck
#75. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
Barry Lopez
#76. Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
Mark Batterson
#77. It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.
Katie McGarry
#78. Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.
Murray Rothbard
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.
Amanda Mosher
#82. There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.
Carl T. Rowan
#83. 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
#84. You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
Brian Tracy
#85. There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.
Pietro Belluschi
#87. There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait a while. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
Ruth Stafford Peale
#88. There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition
Tom Ford
#89. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.
Toshiko Takaezu
#90. But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held opinions.
Mort Rosenblum
#91. People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.
Michelle Forbes
#92. The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers
Ruth Benedict
#93. There are many questions in this world that have no answers.
Hiromu Arakawa
#94. There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.
Elizabeth George
#95. I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.
Emily Giffin
#96. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Matina Horner
#97. I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Wiesel
#98. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.
Eric Ludy
#99. The Beatles aren't exactly obscure."
"No, they aren't," Conley answers. "However, creativity can bend in different ways. Only in your dimension did the Beatles sing about a purple submarine. There are a couple of 'Big Green Submarines' out there in the multiverse, but usually it's yellow.
Claudia Gray
#100. 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
