Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've shot well the last two nights and that's encouraging. I can't complain about the offense, they were just too athletic to stop consistently on defense. We had no answer for their athleticism.

We have received up to five calls a day, asking when I'm getting out of prison. It's embarrassing and it's been tough. My kids will one day take over this business and they have to answer questions like that.

Jeremy Rifkin

The real issue here is why are some people becoming ill and even dying after they are subjected to gene therapy. Until we get the answer to that question, we ought to have at least a partial moratorium on some of these experiments.

The real answer to improving wealth in other provinces... is to pursue wealth-creating policies - especially in the largest province, Ontario,

Phyllis Schlafly

The real answer is to stop it at the point where they get a job. If they can't verify themselves as being in the country legally, they don't get jobs. Then, you dry up the jobs for them.

Bruce Springsteen

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.

Lech Walesa

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

Deb Caletti

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Deb Caletti

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Diana Gabaldon

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

Where is the problem? The answer is that there is no real problems. The only real problem here is that the district is not being run like a few disgruntled people would like for it to be.

Lew Wasserman

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

Sometimes, it just gets mentally tough, but at the end of the day, I'm playing golf for a living. And reaching out to a huge fan base and knowing people are following my progress and looking up to me means the world to me. So if all I have to do is some photo shoots and answer questions, that's nothing to me. That's part of my life.

We were better in a couple of spots, but overall we need to be better mentally prepared for a race. Cross country's a sport where you have to be ready to go when the gun goes off. You're not going to find the answers out of the course.

We were balanced; it was a fun game. It was a packed house. Any time we tried to pull away, they would answer back.

We were answering everything they threw at us. We are an extremely young basketball team. ... We came close. We have never been here (to the county semifinals) before, and now we know exactly what it takes.

Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

We want to see if we can coexist. These are questions that no one can effectively answer at this point.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Chester Bowles

Production is the only answer to inflation.

Charlotte Bunch

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Charlie Munger

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Charlie Munger

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.