"Your answer tells me that I was right about you running away."
"You want any answers to your questions, tell me what happened to the horse."
Why ask the question, if the answer told you nothing?
Not really an answer, but it told him what he needed to know.
And the answer told me something I'd never realized about my friend.
The answers tell us a good deal about public feelings these days.
Their answers would tell me much of what I need to know.
His answer is telling in a more profound way as well.
The answer may tell us something about how the art world works.
The answers could tell much about his fitness to be President.