Quotes of Retort - somelinesforyou

“ I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer. ”

- Geraldine Ferraro

“ I shall return. ”

- General Douglas McArthur

“ I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. - King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You ought never to "sass" old people - unless they "sass" you first. ”

- Mark Twain

“ God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ The answer is there is no answer. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ What we see is that each person's cancer is genetically different. Some respond better to radiation, some to chemotherapy. The responses have to be assessed and the patient treated accordingly. ”

- Keith Miller

“ What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ I sent my soul through the Invisible,Some letter of that After life to spell:And by and by my Soul return'd to me,And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell.". ”

- Edward Fitzgerald

“ Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ”

- Edward Bond

“ Solutions are not the answer. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over. ”

- Lillie Langtry

“ If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers. ”

- William Culbertson

“ I will not take "but" for an answer. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ The hard questions always have more than one right answer. The easy questions have no answers at all. That's the universe's way of keeping things balanced. ”

- Solomon Short

“ Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. ”

- Viktor Frankl

“ Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The shortest answer is doing the thing. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ”

- W.C. Fields

“ Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. ”

- John Sterling

“ If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. ”

- Ivern Ball

“ There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication… Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. ”

- John Dewey

“ The camp that argued deflation has been proven wrong,... They (inflation-indexed bonds) provide a competitive return with less volatility... We have been in a period of much reduced returns in stocks. Going forward I think equity returns on average would migrate more to 7 percent levels… ”

- Robert Rodriguez

“ If we are going to make a difference as fathers, we need to do it now. The decision is practical. It has to do with bedtimes, Saturday football games, stories, and hamburgers; and it has to do with carving those times out of busy lives - today. ”

- Rob Parsons

“ In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers. ”

- Eric Butterworth
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