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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.