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• To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Lying, Home

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 14, 2011

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• When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

  Christopher Paolini

  Hate, Ignorant, Pieces

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1719, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Unanswered Questions, Lessons

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• I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Hope, Jesus, Pain

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• I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Regret, Emptiness, Moments

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.524, Penguin

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• I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Home, Childhood, Nostalgic

  Stewart O'Nan (2003). “Snow Angels: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.

  Alfred Binet

  Children, Science, Intelligent

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Works on Psychometrics”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Car, What If

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.316, Penguin

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• Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Prayer, Fall, Godly

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.219, Penguin

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• One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

  Dan Brown

  Arguing, Certain, Left

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• Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Unanswered Questions

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• Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Come Up, Theory

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• It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.

  John Boehner

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  "Obama administration claims Iran deal a ‘forever agreement,’ despite expiration dates". www.foxnews.com. April 06, 2015.

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• A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Friendship, Long, Letters

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• For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

  Carson McCullers

  Attitude, Hate, War

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• It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

  Anodea Judith

  Unanswered Questions, Answers, Examination

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

  Rick Warren

  Walking With God, Walks

  "The Most Important Interview I’ve Ever Done". pastors.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

  Carl Jung

  Karma, Children, Fate

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• Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Prayer, Thank God, Praise

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• Thank God for unanswered prayers.

  Garth Brooks

  Prayer, Thank God, Desire

  Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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• I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

  Abd-ru-shin

  Men, Soul, Wish

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