Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niccolo Machiavelli

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Jodi Picoult

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

Jodi Picoult

If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

Keegan Allen

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

Oren Peli

I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

Oprah Winfrey

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

Oprah Winfrey

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves

Oscar Wilde

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Mark Twain

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Martin Heidegger

What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Nikki Giovanni

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

John Green

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

John Green

the point is that there are always answers.

Pat Sajak

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

Michel de Montaigne

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Michael K. Simpson

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Mark Twain

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Marianne Williamson

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Gertrude Stein

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Gertrude Stein

Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?

Gertrude Stein

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

George Packer

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

John Milton

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

Norbert Wiener

There are no answers, only cross references

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know

Chuck Schumer

The door outside this room doesn't say, check your views out the door. So your failure to answer questions is confounding me. You've done it in instance, after instance, after instance, after instance.

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Jeffery Deaver

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue

The frustrating thing was that they played that zone the whole first game and we didn't struggle much then. But tonight we didn't have an answer for it. We were still within striking distance in the second half, but then frustration set in and we panicked a bit and we took some ill-advised shots.