He Replied Quotes
136 quotes by 114 authors
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We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to…
— Deepak Chopra
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I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most…
— Carl Jung
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President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that…
— Maureen Dowd
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Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a…
— Edwidge Danticat
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A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
— Robert Graves
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I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
— Philip Yancey
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Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's…
— Philip Yancey
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug…
— A. N. Wilson
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Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone…
— Ernest Cline
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When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.
— Elvin Hayes
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[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She…
— Ronald Reagan
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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But…
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your…
— Winston Churchill
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Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than…
— Plutarch
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He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed…
— Chaim Weizmann
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Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away.…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open…
— Winston Churchill
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Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and…
— Saadi
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