Easy Answers – Quotes

There are no easy

There are no easy answers, there’s only living through the questions. Elizabeth George

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don’t even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we … Read more

The story goes that

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn’t an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn’t given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do … Read more

What do you want

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. Charlie Munger

Remember, an easy question

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer – except faith. Charles Sheffield

I did not know

I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers. Bernhard Schlink

We’re too smart to

We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers. Ann Romney

I don’t care what

I don’t care what you do – baseball or politics – George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years – Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids. Andy Van Slyke

I wish there were

I wish there were easy answers to people’s health questions. There aren’t. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy. Andrew Saul

When I asked the

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president’s response, he hasn’t killed anyone yet. Rand Paul