Unanswered Quotes

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  Garth Brooks

  Happiness, Heartbroken, Spiritual

  Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990

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• Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

  Joel Osteen

  Unanswered Questions, Trust In God

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

  Phillip Noyce

  Opportunity, Volcanoes, Stories

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Ambitious, Unanswered Questions

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Unanswered Questions, Fine

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.205, Penguin

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• I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, Believe, Gone

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• In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

  Willie Brown

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

  Ivars Peterson

  Islands, Ontology, May

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• So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions

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• In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Asking Why, People, Broken

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Pain, Heart, Racism

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• If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

  John McCain

  Thinking, United States, Afghanistan

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital that we continue to research and educate ourselves in the hopes that we may begin to understand the challenges that these children and their families continue to face with each passing day.

  Manny Alvarez

  Children, Autism, Challenges

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

  Feist

  Ties, Bows, Chords

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Home, Hands

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• People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Want, Sometimes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We are waiting for Donald Trump`s big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation forces, on what to do with the millions of immigrants who are here illegally now, and where he stands on the question of birthright citizenship.

  Steve Kornacki

  Waiting, Deportation, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Boys, Fire

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

  Bill James

  Writing, This Generation, Generations

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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