Answer Quotes - page 9

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard. (Willard van Orman Quine)
Swearing relieves the feelings-that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. It seems to require more explanation. "Because that's what you and I do. Protect each other." View quote
Suzanne Collins
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. View quote
Nora Roberts
It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life. View quote
Nicole Richie
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
The original answer defines certain conditions, [...] Anything else is a different question. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones. View quote
Yanni
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible. View quote
Michelle Kwan
He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship... (Mary Renault)
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The whales do not sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song. View quote
Gregory Colbert
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer. View quote
Woody Allen
Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better To that there is an answer. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. View quote
Camille Paglia
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. View quote
Hermann Hesse
"Yep" is not an answer! View quote
Judith Sheindlin
Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of "kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed"). View quote
Ann Coulter
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism. View quote
Francisco Franco
Why do you paint; For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There isnt any answer. How long hasnt there been any answer; As long as I can remember. And how long have you written; As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I. (E. E. Cummings)
I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me. View quote
El Greco
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?) View quote
Bill Bryson
What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in varying degrees, security, prosperity, social services and greater equality. We have grown accustomed in recent years to the assertion that the price paid for these benefits-in economic inefficiency, insufficient innovation, stifled entrepreneurship, public debt and a loss of private initiative-was too high. Most of these criticisms are demonstrably false. View quote
Tony Judt
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue. View quote
Jack Vance