Quotes on Answers

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. _x000D_ Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. _x000D_ Say it until you can hear it.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.