Quotes on Answers

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. For I have seen too _x000D_ much hate... every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.