Answer Quotes

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

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

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.