Top 100 Time Answer Quotes
#1. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.
Tom Robbins
#2. There seems to be plenty of it,' was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.
Aldous Huxley
#3. I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.
Harper Lee
#4. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences.
Claire Contreras
#5. Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.
Lisel Mueller
#6. Couldn't have come at a more perfect time, hey? You gonna answer it and then fuck off for four hours?" she asked, her tone laced with fury.
Beth Ashworth
#7. That makes,what? The second time I've saved your life? Third, if you count that thing in Defense with the Vandy. Speaking of which, you're still thrusting your elbow too high on Skill Nine."
I swallowed twice before I was able to answer. "I'll work on that.
Rachel Hawkins
#8. My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
Margaret Atwood
#9. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?
Kacey Vanderkarr
#10. Did I make you spend so much time at the office? Did I make you play three rounds of golf last weekend? Answer: No, I didn't. I was too busy pinning your wife's ankles to her ears.
Sterling Archer
#11. True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.
Alex Flinn
#12. To those who say that escaping is not courageous, we answer: what is not escape and social investment at the same time?
Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
#13. Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away.
J.C. Ryle
#14. Will I be something?
Am I something? And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.
Anis Mojgani
#15. My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
J.M. Coetzee
#16. Keep on asking! Keep on seeking! Keep on knocking! Because God will answer your prayers. Every time? Always, always, always.
Diane Moody
#17. We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
Joko Beck
#18. I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.
Margaret Atwood
#19. The answer to the question What really works? is simple: Nothing really works, at least not all the time. That's not the nature of the business world. But that insight, however accurate, isn't of much comfort. Management
Philip M. Rosenzweig
#20. Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.
Thomas Hardy
#21. I mean to explore you thoroughly this time."
"Take heed, Captain. I'm prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.
Sherri Browning
#22. Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.
Holly Black
#23. You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time ... Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#24. Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.
Cakes Da Killa
#25. 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
#26. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.
Emily Murdoch
#27. And demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time
Susan Mallery
#28. Before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
Alice Walker
#29. So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world?
And if the answer's no, then please delete.
There's enough sadness in the world already. You don't need to add to it.
Zoe Sugg
#30. It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.
Thomas Merton
#31. They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
#32. Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#33. Goodness, Mr. Cellini, I've not time to answer all these questions. I've got to get on.'
With what? She seldom did anything but read, as far as he knew. She must have read thousands of books, she was always at it.
Ruth Rendell
#34. My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card
#35. Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with.
Chris Dietzel
#36. Silence doesn't mean he or she doesn't know the answer. Just in time, you will know what his or her response.
Shim Steward
#37. I think you should go to the ball with me." She clutched her fingers. His expression was too genuine, too sure. Her nerves tingled. "Stars," she muttered. "Didn't you already ask me that?" "I'm hoping for a more favorable answer this time. And
Marissa Meyer
#38. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...
Sanhita Baruah
#39. Will I use this technique more than 3 times? If the answer is yes, then it's worth your time to learn it. If the answer is no, then hire someone else to do it for you.
Jeanette Cates
#40. If you were to show up right now as the highest version of you, what would that look and feel like? How would that be different from right now? The answer to this is the path to follow on your journey and living in your truth. Listen to it and go for it. Now is the time.
Stacy Nelson
#41. Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.
Jonathan Renshaw
#42. I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.
John Hume
#43. Things can make sense at the time, but as you get older those consolations no longer help you sleep. It's the only thing I've learned. We all think we know the answer, and we're all wrong. Shit, I'm not sure we even know what the question is.
Mark Mills
#44. When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.
Carl Henegan
#45. You're not going to answer me? Or do I need to repeat myself for a third time? It's okay. I like to hear myself talk.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#46. Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.
Ngaio Marsh
#47. As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
Greg Laurie
#48. She said, 'This will be a time of asking questions and not rushing to answer them. A time of poking holes in your own theories. A time of thinking and not knowing.
A.S. King
#49. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.
Trevor Noah
#50. She meant you have to live a story for a time.'
'And?'
'And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?'
'Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.'
'Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.
L.L. Barkat
#51. Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.
Amy Hill Hearth
#52. I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#53. Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is available as a feature but you are talking about relationship and marriage are you right with your mind?
Deyth Banger
#54. To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
George Thorndike Angell
#57. I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.
Selma Blair
#58. Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.
Dawn Metcalf
#59. When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, We have nothing to say at this time.
Paul Levine
#60. The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
Sidney Hook
#61. I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.'
'Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He shook his head.
'Would you? For you have chosen, as much as I.
Diana Gabaldon
#62. If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.
E. O. Wilson
#63. Once i asked myself ," what is time? " , in a second or two , i find the answer - " 't' for tension , 'i' for imaginative character of time , 'm' as it is mathematically expressed , 'e' as it has elegance
Suman Kundu
#64. We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,' ... With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for.
Rick McCallum
#65. Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer.
Daniel Keyes
#66. Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer.
Steven D. Levitt
#67. Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.
Haruki Murakami
#68. It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.
Patricia Field
#69. 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
#70. Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects. He laughed and cried at once. He had so many names, yet could not answer to any of them.
Ron Currie Jr.
#71. Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.
Steven Moffat
#72. Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be
Anis Mojgani
#73. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
Arsene Wenger
#74. Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.
Aryn Kyle
#75. - and there, on the table under her bedroom window, lies the voice that has set her dreaming again. Fragments of a life lived a long, long time ago. Across a hundred years the woman's voice speaks to her - so clearly that she cannot believe it is not possible to pick up her pen and answer.
Ahdaf Soueif
#76. We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
Honore De Balzac
#77. I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [ ... ] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.
Marguerite Duras
#78. Then it's not a waste of time. Believe me, Rose, God hears you. It's just that sometimes the answer doesn't come right away. Or sometimes the answer is simply no."
"It is?"
"Yes. No one gets everything they want.
Alexis Harrington
#79. God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#80. In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'
Andrew Rosenthal
#81. An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing" -
attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time.
Tony Leon
#82. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.
Barack Obama
#83. Our species is angry on a deep level. We know something has been wrong for a long time. We are tired of being thrown the scraps. This is primal, guttural; the scream of an exhausted humanity who will not take no for an answer.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#84. Time will tell
...
Time will answer
...
Silence... and time....
Deyth Banger
#85. One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
Brene Brown
#86. Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
Patrick Rothfuss
#87. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
A.A. Milne
#88. He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.
Alexander MacLaren
#89. If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.
Jim Cymbala
#90. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Bill Bryson
#91. Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
#92. I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.
Jennifer Brown
#93. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
#94. Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends.
Jonathan Dunne
#95. There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
Shaquille O'Neal
#96. Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.
The thousandth time may prove the charm.
Robert Frost
#97. Without hesitation, each time, my answer was our standing with Hispanics and Latinos. We must do a better job of reaching out to these communities and demonstrate to them that our party is aligned with the aspirations Hispanics have for their families and for America.
Kevin Madden
#98. Madoka: I think it's because of your wish to protect me all this time that I am what I am now. And it's that "me" who has finally found an answer. So please ... trust me.
Magica Quartet
#99. Verranica Welling, I love you with all my soul. I will happily be your king, if you will consent to be my love, my wife and my queen for all of our days in Doon and beyond.
This time, I didn't need to think about my answer. Yes, Jamie, Yes!
Carey Corp
#100. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
