Answers Quotes - Page 55

My mother answers all my fan mail.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

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

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons. ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.

Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

Better ramp up your virtual relationships. Companies think omni channel is the correct answer. This is not enough. The information explosion for consumers makes 24/7 and full and complete engagement possible.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.