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.
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Related It's hard to give an answer to the question. BRADY QUINN As with all of these scandals, the longer it takes them to answer the question, the more interest th... 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... ABRAHAM VERGHESE 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... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 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.
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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... JEB BUSH 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! UNKNOWN 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. MELISSA MARR 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. TOM PERROTTA 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 When it comes to what you really want in life. Dont take no for an answer. Take no for a question an... 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 ... KENNETH DARRYL BROWN The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer. JACOB BRONOWSKI Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??...... DEYTH BANGER There's a rush to judgment that his death was related to his obesity, and that's an open-ended quest... 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. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
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