Quotes of Rebuttal - somelinesforyou

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

- Geraldine Ferraro

“ I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind — and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ And to answer the question that people have about this conspiracy theory that he has a pack in his back, my answer is, if someone was feeding him answers, couldn't they be able to feed him better ones than he came up with? ”

- Bill Maher

“ All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer… ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No one has the answer: we are answer and question. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today. ”

- Guy Pearce

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

- Yogi Berra

“ Solutions are not the answer. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ”

- Edward Bond

“ The answer is there is no answer. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- William Culbertson

“ The shortest answer is doing the thing. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ 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

“ I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The shortest answer is doing. ”

- Lord Herbert

“ The shortest answer is doing the thing. ”

- George Herbert

“ Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. ”

- Anais Nin

“ I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno
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