You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.
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Related One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give yo... CHRISTIANA MILLER It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop... SOPHIE KINSELLA That's an open question, ... We won't know the answer to that until the first challenge arises from ... JAY NIXON Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. IVERN BALL Jane Heard. ONE An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one... JOHN TULEY I was one of the first to bring up that question, and I still haven't gotten an answer. DAVID PELLETIER But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the... SáNDOR MáRAI I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argume... JULIA QUINN Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer... HARPER LEE Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of u... MAX PLANCK What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousan... G.F. SMITH Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And... CHARLES SHEFFIELD A closed-ended question, however, is one which could be answered with a one-word answer or a simple ... SUSAN C. YOUNG Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?... ANNE BISHOP Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s... FREDERICK DOUGLASS This was one of the few times where we actually had an issue with them and they were actually presen... CHRISTINE CHEN But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear ... JODI PICOULT The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important tha... RICHARD DAWKINS Whatever your goal in life might be, don't take no for an answer. When you take no for an answer you... PHILIP T. M. We don't know the answer to that question. That's one of the things investigators are looking into, ... BRIAN JONES I will listen and if I can't provide an answer, I'll find one and get back (to them). There are seve... CLAY HARRIS Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have... JOE SIMON In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. "Am I the on... ORSON SCOTT CARD 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 When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question ... PABLO ANDRéS WUNDERLICH PADILLA In pursuit of Nirvana you may not know what your question is but you will know for sure when you hea... PRATIK SHARDA No one really knows perfectly the answer. WARREN FARRELL Realization that you don't have an answer, it self is the beginning.
But many of us think we are the... DR. VINOD B. NAIR You can't guard Hall with one player. They didn't have an answer for Hall or Becker tonight. CURT FREDRICKSON I really don't want to answer that question one way or another, BOB AYERS You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. ... TERRY PRATCHETT 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 When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, ... KATE BERNHEIMER We had to be active up front, ... We made that an emphasis. Whoever got the one-on-one battled had t... JARVIS GREEN All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fil... DEYTH BANGER Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL No one answer is ever the answer. AHMED MOSTAFA Whatever your goal in life might be, don't take no for an answer. When you take no for an answer you... PHILIP T. M. And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile... JOHN GREEN When you want to know an answer... do online research and/or ask an expert on this topic. Get your a... LORRIN L. LEE Gladys would often know what you wanted before you ordered it. She was sincerely interested in what ... BOB GORMAN The answer is no way, no how. From the sisters to the mother, every last one of them said it never h... BRIAN OXMAN God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job i... ROBIN LEE HATCHER You can't find an answer to an unknown question. JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be a... VINEET RAJ KAPOOR What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,wha... LEO TOLSTOY Who will be left at the end of the day? The answer is, no one! ANTHONY T.HINCKS If one can't answer, simplify the question. TOBA BETA Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer ... JOHN TUKEY No one will ever really know your emotions, take no assumptions because there is never a definite an... MARLENE M. CHAVEZ She had an answer for every question and paperwork to back it up. PAUL HOBBS When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between... DAN BROWN We have this illusion that something outside of us is going to hold the answer, but the answer is NE... WILIAM CONSTANTINE Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe... RICHARD WRIGHT The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr... MILAN KUNDERA I used to have this lecturer, whenever he's asked a question he has no idea about the answer, he wou... OMOSOHWOFA CASEY Lord give me an answer, or give me the patience to wait for one, just do it now please! UNKNOWN When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We h... ERIC SCHMIDT In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simpl... EDWARD P. TRYON 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 There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the a... GERTRUDE STEIN He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask. MELISSA MARR We had to get out of the city. Every (team) replied, but Jayson (King) was the only one who had an o... MICHELLE KREEGER There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear. TOM PERROTTA She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care... CASSANDRA CLARE 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 Never answer a question from a farmer. HUBERT HUMPHREY Never answer a question from a farmer. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY It is always better to ask a question than to answer one. LEMONY SNICKET One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinen... , THE ASCENT OF MAN, 1973 If the PM wants to answer a different question, thats fine, and thats a good answer to a differe... GARY ACKERMAN His answer was an honest one -- I think the markets misinterpreted what I said. LYLE GRAMLEY I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. YOGI BERRA I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question YOGI BERRA To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. S. TOBIN WEBSTER To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. S. TOBIN WEBSTER Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ... ERICH FROMM Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. EVITA PERON Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. EVITA PERóN Who is right? The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be... JAN ELIASSON Any health ministry that presides over the spread of an epidemic like this one has much to answer fo... ZWELINZIMA VAVI Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to cr... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It was almost biblical what we did. As soon as they slapped our cheek we turned the other one and th... SHERRI MURRELL That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer. HAL SUTTON I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To th... OSCAR WILDE If there are two men, Rod and Rob, and you can only steal from one, which one would you choose? The ... JAROD KINTZ We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given u... WILL HOLMAN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL ... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it bec... MARK HADDON When fear knocks at the door, and you answer, there will be no one there. UNKNOWN You don't know, oh, oh You don't know you're beautiful. ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong. KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums. DAY ONE
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I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was on the abutment. ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I got off the abutment and walked towards my office. ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film. ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ABRAHAM WHIPPLE I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co... ABRAHAM WHIPPLE The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ... ABRAHAM ROBINSON Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ... ABRAHAM POLONSKY You must never throw away things that are worth good money. ABRAHAM POLONSKY If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody. ABRAHAM POLONSKY A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ... ABRAHAM POLONSKY A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. ABRAHAM POLONSKY I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The... ABRAHAM POLONSKY Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? ABRAHAM POLONSKY Money has no moral opinions. ABRAHAM POLONSKY Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh... ABRAHAM PAIS The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up und... ABRAHAM PAIS One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to... ABRAHAM PAIS One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to kn... ABRAHAM PAIS I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c... ABRAHAM PAIS Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth... ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,... ABRAHAM MASLOW With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J... ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,... ABRAHAM MASLOW Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go... ABRAHAM MASLOW