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801 Answered quotes by 578 unique authors
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The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.
— Vusi Mahlasela
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Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace.
— Shri Radhe Maa
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I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and…
— Darcey Steinke
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To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
— Lukas Foss
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Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the…
— Nancy Friday
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form…
— Joseph Epstein
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I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not…
— Kim Novak
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Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising…
— Ken Wilber
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask…
— Oliver North
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type…
— Daron Malakian
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An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or…
— Jaroslav Pelikan
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"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
— Anton Chekhov
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Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked:…
— Charles M. Schwab
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as…
— Swami Vivekananda
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When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
— Albert Camus
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Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect…
— Wilbur Smith
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For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
— Tony Robbins
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Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
— Marshall Faulk
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I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back…
— Oriana Fallaci
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He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to say, "At least…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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