We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.
Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.
Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
You are playing cards with three Jeffs. One is your father, one is your brother, and the other is your current boyfriend. All of them have seen you naked and heard you talking in your sleep. Your boyfriend Jeff gets up to answer the phone. To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.
Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary-it's always imaginary-world in which I would like to live.
Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason. . . . When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.
I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.