Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

Soren Kierkegaard

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Stephen Colbert

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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.

Saint Augustine

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Verne Troyer

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

Robin Wright

Everyone has the answers.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Robert Reich

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Richard P. Feynman

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richelle Mead

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

Robert Heller

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

Richard Russo

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Robert De Niro

You don'’t always have to have the answer to everything.

Richard L. Evans

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

Roland Barthes

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

Rod McKuen

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

Robin McKinley

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Robert Towne

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Sarah Lacy

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Wilma Mankiller

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Wim Wenders

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

Zig Ziglar

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Wendell Berry

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

Will Smith

Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

Samuel Beckett

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Ramana Maharshi

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Scott Pelley

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

Laurie Halse Anderson

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.