Answers Quotes

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.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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.

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.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

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.

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.

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.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.