Answer Quotes
4553 quotes by 3042 authors
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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
— John Steinbeck
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At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The…
— Richard Bach
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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
— Tom Robbins
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your…
— Angela Carter
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Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become…
— Greg Mortenson
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If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a…
— John Bytheway
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Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the…
— Douglas Adams
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The…
— Douglas Coupland
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The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab…
— Gerry Spence
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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you…
— Betty Friedan
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Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we…
— Louise Glück
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Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.
— Stephen Colbert
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?'…
— Elie Wiesel
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday…
— Ronald Reagan
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
— Anton Chekhov
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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