Answer Quotes - page 4

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else. (Mae West)

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

Frank McCourt

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Richard Bach

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Simon Conway Morris

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Desmond Morris

There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

The shortest answer is doing. (George Herbert)

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Henry Fielding

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

Never answer an anonymous letter.

Yogi Berra

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Yogi Berra

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. (John Tukey)

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

Stephen King

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

Douglas Adams

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

Richard Dawkins

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

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