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I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.

On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

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.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.