Answer Quotes - page 91

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself. (Thomas à Kempis)

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

Jeb Bush

Releasing those songs into the void, and not having the void answer back, led all of us to splinter off and attempt to make our mark by deconstructing. Instead of going forward with my tunesmithing, I went back to the beginning. And that's what Pretty on the Inside was about.

Courtney Love

KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Recently? KERRY: Yes, recently. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How recent? KERRY: That‘s not your business. It‘s mine. Are you a Democrat, a Republican? What are you? Are you a registered Republican? (CROSSTALK) KERRY: Are you a Republican? You answer the question. Did you vote for George Bush? Did you vote for George Bush? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I voted for George Bush and I... KERRY: Thank you. (UNIDENTIFIED MALE sits while booed by crowd)

John Kerry

"Tell me," said the atheist, "Is there a God - really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

Anthony de Mello

My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, "Don't harm, and do help.” And now the question is, "Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?” And the answer is, "Of course they can.” Consequently, I think it's immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral reason to be vegetarian, to not wear leather... it seems to me that our treatment of animals is morally appalling... and that we ought to radically revise the way we live, precisely because they feel pain, they can be hurt, and we're constantly hurting these creatures!

Shelly Kagan

Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn't have to answer to kings and queens."

Suzanne Collins

People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.

Cecelia Ahern

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Amy Poehler

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

Barry Commoner

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations. (Emma Caulfield)

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

Nora Roberts

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Jodi Picoult

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Jodi Picoult

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question 'Where was I before I was born.' In the beginning was ... what Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Angela Carter

I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

Emma Orczy

As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.

Christine de Pizan

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

Yo-Yo Ma

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

Yo-Yo Ma

I think working on the floor [Helen started 1951-52] came from Pollock. In other words, the whole idea of all sides of pictures being possible, bottom, top, sides of the picture came from him. And the whole idea of the painting being in a sense choreographed came from him, and that once one made a move toward the canvas surface that there was a dialectic and the surface gave you an answer back, and you gave it an answer back. But that was a Pollock notion of --.... That your plans made accidents, demanded something else and then something else hinged on something else.. (Helen Frankenthaler)

He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It's not my business. But if you're asking me if I've brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don't want anybody but you.

Cassandra Clare

I think the book is going to be who you are. If you're a person of faith that will come out in the book. It's not something that you stick on or worry if you're clear enough. Because the minute you start doing that you've stopped telling a story and started writing propaganda. I think propaganda has gotten a bad name; it simply means you have something you believe that you want to share. But that's different from a story, where you don't start with an answer that you want to share: you start with a question that you need to explore. And you do that in the form of a story.

Katherine Paterson

Politicians may initially find it difficult to accept new standards of public accountability, but we must make the costs of not doing so even greater. The best way to do this is by publicly embarrassing and shaming those officials and departments who refuse to answer to the public.

Heather Brooke

In America literary reputations come and go so swiftly," I complained, fatuously. [Santayana's] answer was swift. "It would be insufferable if they did not.

George Santayana

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