Answer Quotes - page 2

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. (Robert F. Kennedy)
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. View quote
Thomas Friedman
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. View quote
W. C. Fields
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. View quote
Mark Twain
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. View quote
Arthur Miller
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. (Thomas Jefferson)
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. View quote
John Lennon
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure. Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go... View quote
John Lennon
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. View quote
John Lennon
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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? View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. View quote
Norman Mailer
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. View quote
Epictetus
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. (Anne Rice)
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. View quote
Frederick Douglass
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question. View quote
Lily Tomlin
What you are is a question only you can answer. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. View quote
Ann Coulter