"Answers" Quotes . Top 34 Short Quotes About "Answers"

"I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?"

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Answers #Happened #Historian

"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"

--- A. R. Ammons

#Asks #Answers #Poetry Is

"Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Answers #Mushrooms

"I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Thinking #Reason #Non Believer

"The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Mean #Truth #Answers

"The simplest answer is to act."

--- A.S. King

#Answers #Simplest

"Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times."

--- Aamir Khan

#Great Actors #Said #Answers

"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap"

--- Aaron Allston

#Answers #Razors #Crap

"I have a lot of questions and I don't have that many answers. So what better place to exercise those thoughts than the lyrics, I guess."

--- Aaron Bruno

#Answers #Exercise #Better Place

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No.""

--- Aaron Copland

#Music #Famous Musician #Composer

"Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!""

--- Aaron Copland

#Answers #Inspiration

"The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask."

--- Aaron Levie

#Asks #Answers #Customers

"The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote."

--- Aaron Russo

#People #Lesser Evil #Answers

"I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels."

--- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Feels #Hard Questions #Passionate

"People are always asking what's the secret of my success, and the answer is easy - at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive. If you don't have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don't think that you have much of a life. You've got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to - that's what living is all about."

--- Aaron Tippin

#People #Thinking #Answers

"An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Answers #Fronts #Faces

"Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it."

--- Abbi Glines

#Answers #Heart #Needs

"Don't take 'no' for an answer."

--- Abdallah II

#Answers

"We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace."

--- Abdallah II

#People #Lasts #Answers

"Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question."

--- Abdallah II

#Answers #World #Occasions

"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."

--- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Answers #Order #Clear

"If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity"."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Mean #Answers #Failing

"Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door."

--- Abel Ferrara

#Answers #Making Money #Doors

"Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them."

--- Aberjhani

#Empathy #Possession #Solutions

"Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing."

--- Abigail Reynolds

#I Can #Feels #Answers

"How should they answer?"

--- Abigail Van Buren

#Answers #Life #Should

"Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence."

--- Abraham Coles

#Speech #Answers #Ecstatic

"We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Thinking #Answers #Asking Questions

"There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Answers #Commit #Despair

"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Questions And Answers #Asks #Answers

"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Awareness #Solutions #Answers

"There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Awareness #Answers #Moments

"Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Answers #Surprise #Prayer

"As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Book #Answers #Provoked

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