Answers Quotes - Page 33

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian, what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Production is the only answer to inflation.