Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.


Charles Sheffield

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It's hard to give an answer to the question.
BRADY QUINN
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MASSIE RITSCH
Let me point out that the refusal to answer a question can be as illuminating as an answer.
FRANK SEANEZ
It's a complex issue and I don't have an easy answer for it.
HAL KVISLE
Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.
SARAH DESSEN
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember ans...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I&#...
FLOYD SKLOOT
There is more content in a question than an answer.
JACK RIVKIN
Question everything, but make sure to answer the questions.
PHOENIX MILLER
understanding a question is half an answer
SOCRATES
That's an easy question, but a tough answer. To go from a loser to a winner, to a consistent winner,...
GLEN MASON
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer ...
JOHN TUKEY
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important tha...
RICHARD DAWKINS
For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after dea...
DRAGOS BRATASANU
If there is a Question, there got to be an Answer. The search for that answer is where the line betw...
HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI
But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the...
SáNDOR MáRAI
That's an excellent question, but I'm not sure we can answer it.
CHANNING PHILLIPS
For every question, there is an answer.
Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.
RICHARD DIAZ
One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the questi...
ASHLEE VANCE
The Answer is answer of another question beyond that question.
DEYTH BANGER
It is a hypothetical question. I don't answer hypothetical questions.
DANIEL VASELLA
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannotbe expressed. The riddle does not exi...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
INFINITY is the answer to any question, but it cannot answer any question.
EPHDAN
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
If it is an examination paper then they are asking a question there is no answer to.
LEE WESTWOOD
You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had sp...
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Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes...
GREGORY BATESON
You can't find an answer to an unknown question.
JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA
The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a ha...
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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one...
JOHN TULEY
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the a...
GERTRUDE STEIN
It's never been an easy answer. And it now seems like the answer is changing more rapidly.
AL TOMPKINS
To every answer you can find a new question
YIDDISH PROVERB
Maybe the answer is that there isn't one. Maybe the answer is that there isn't JUST one.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
I'd rather live with the answer than die with the question.
PLEASEFINDTHIS
What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?
LAURA KELLY
It's probably the most vulnerable part of this whole equation. We don't have an easy answer for this...
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There is nothing like right or wrong question or answer. A question may be right for someone and wro...
ANUJ SOMANY
Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.
LISA KLEYPAS
To every complex problem there is an easy answer; and it is wrong!
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Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answ...
SALMAN MANSURI
Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
ERIK NAGGUM.
I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING
As every question has an answer every problem has a solution.
KOWSALAPATHY
He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.
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There is no perfect answer to any question in a world of INFINITY.
EPHDAN
Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question
HENRY MON
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
Complicated questions may have answer but none for the born from idiocy.
PIYUSH LODHA
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue ti...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
She had an answer for every question and paperwork to back it up.
PAUL HOBBS
That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
HAL SUTTON
There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear.
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In pursuit of Nirvana you may not know what your question is but you will know for sure when you hea...
PRATIK SHARDA
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a no...
MIKE JUDGE
He still must answer this vital question directly.
NANCY KEENAN
If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question it's a bureaucracy. If the fi...
GERALD F. LIEBERMAN
For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...
HARPER LEE
That is indeed the burning question, I have no ready answer to that.
HANS HOLTHUIS
There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be a...
VINEET RAJ KAPOOR
But there was no equation or series of questions that could turn this moment into an answer.
CATHERINE LACEY
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
And then I ask a question I already know the answer to... Like looking at who I am but can become ex...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
For any question – regardless of its complexity – there is a clear and simple answer.
ERALDO BANOVAC
God tells us not to question him, is this because he can not answer our questions?
LIVVY ANDERSON
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BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Never answer a hypothetical question
MOSHE ARENS
This is a relevant question. I would say the open-source community is waiting for an answer,
MARTEN MICKOS
Life is a question,but death is the answer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
HAL SUTTON
Question is infinite and Answer is finite, Always remember finite is Truth
NOOR AHMED
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to forc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questio...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
Learn to ask good questions. The quality of  the answer will be determined by the quality of your ...
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The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??......
DEYTH BANGER
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ELLIOT PELLMAN
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
ENGLISH PROVERB
A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggl...
TRACY K. SMITH
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life.
CAMERON CROWE
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN
Look for the answer inside your question.
RUMI
You can't the answer if you don't know the question.
JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA
Never answer a question from a farmer.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
If one can't answer,
simplify the question.
TOBA BETA
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
YOGI BERRA
What you are is a question only you can answer.
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CHARLES BABBAGE
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON
There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY
A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY
I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE