Quotes about answer
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“Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for….”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Pain, Loss, Cry

“The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.

Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?”

Joe Haldeman book The Forever War

Source: The Forever War

War, Communication, Question, Falseness

“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.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

Question

“My answer is: Recognize yourself in others”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?
I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

World, Parting

“Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)”

John Piper (1946) American writer

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Question, Forgetting

“Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Way

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Source: Autobiographies

Freedom

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”

Desmond Morris (1928) English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter

Question

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.

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Quotes about answer
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