Answer Quotes
4553 Answer quotes by 2864 unique authors
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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying…
— Woody Allen
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Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his…
— Lynne Truss
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Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
— Douglas Adams
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If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That…
— Richard Brautigan
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I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question
— George W. Bush
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You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems…
— Joseph Heller
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
— George Washington
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
— Ralph Ellison
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You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing…
— George Orwell
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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was…
— Lewis Carroll
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that?…
— William Shakespeare
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The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
— Anais Nin
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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either…
— Nick Hornby
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It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— C.S. Lewis
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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
— Charles M. Schulz
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
— Albert Camus
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It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
— Ralph Ellison
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