Quotes by Answers How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard. Willard Van Orman Quine variablesdoctrineanswers A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true. Willard Van Orman Quine simplicitythreeanswers When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather Willa Cather answerseasypeople Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer. Will Smith ask-metypeanswers I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call. Will Rogers answersbirdmen The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue. William Avery issuesanswersgiving When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species. William Bateson answersgivingway Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should. William C. Richardson taughtshouldanswers The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer. William Carey graceprayeranswers Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. William Blake atheismanswersmen In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one. William Daniels taughtanswerslooks Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today. William Eggleston photographyanswerspeople Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. William F. Buckley, Jr. san-franciscoanswersyears The proverb answers where the sermon fails. William Gilmore Simms gunpowderanswersinspirational The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. William Gilmore Simms gunpowderairanswers The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different. William Faulkner differentanswerstrying The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell. William Golding skullsanswersknows If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why." William Gibson honestanswersknows I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either. William Goldman dyinganswerswant But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. William H. Seward would-belawanswers«133134135136137138139140141142143»
