Answerable Quotes

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable. - John Green

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. - Daniel Webster

The mistake they made was hanging everything on the question of who killed Laura Palmer. In our show there is not one overriding question comparable to that. There are a series of mysteries: what is the nature of the island, what is the monster, what is the hatch, who are the mysterious 'other people'? Making sure that some of those mysteries are answerable over time is the way to prevent that frustration. - Carlton Cuse

The mayor is [taking] money from our schoolchildren to pay for jobs for his friends. With an elected school board answerable to the voters, our children will get a better education. - Frank Scarafile

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. - Nadine Gordimer

So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to me, on the old unanswerable philosophical questions. And as I spin out the action, Im always very concerned with springing discoveries, actual philosophical discoveries. But at the same time Im concerned and finally more concerned with what the discoveries do to the character who makes them, and to the people around him. Its that that makes me not really a philosopher, but a novelist. - John Gardner

Our faculty in some ways is answerable to students. The problem, of course, is where do you draw the line. It's a fuzzy line, but there is a line. - Paul Wojda

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! - Lord Byron

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. - William Hazlitt

Man represents us, legislates for us, and now holds himself accountable for us! How kind in him, and what a weight is lifted from us! We shall no longer be answerable to the laws of God or man, no longer be subject to punishment for breaking them. - Amelia Jenks Bloomer