Answer Quotes
4553 Answer quotes by 2864 unique authors
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He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did…
— Jon Krakauer
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When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious:…
— Richard Kadrey
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Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no…
— Kate DiCamillo
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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see…
— C.S. Lewis
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Silence is the best answer to a fool.
— Nnedi Okorafor
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To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what…
— Paul Hawken
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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
— Jean Piaget
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Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is…
— Lionel Shriver
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Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force…
— Mother Teresa
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Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet?…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was…
— Charles Portis
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I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed.…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any…
— Osamu Dazai
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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he…
— J R Ward
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When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could…
— Ayn Rand
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Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the…
— Christopher Isherwood
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The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me…
— Richelle Mead
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