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801 Answered quotes by 578 unique authors
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Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility…
— Unknown Author
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
— Anne Lamott
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My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know that this will…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
— Ben Jonson
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When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
— Plutarch
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada…
— Erma Bombeck
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Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles,…
— Deepak Chopra
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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I…
— Woodrow Wilson
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
— Oscar Wilde
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
— George Meredith
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Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
— Thomas Sowell
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Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not…
— Heinrich Hertz
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There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven…
— Arthur Eddington
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,…
— Hugh Miller
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,…
— Lynn Margulis
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Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for…
— Hilaire Belloc
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
— Plutarch
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There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither did all stand…
— Edgar Cayce
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Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.
— Clarence H. Burns
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What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to…
— John Ryman
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It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference…
— Tulsi Gabbard
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