Asking Quotes - Page 21

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

I kind of feel in a way all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves. Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions in a sense.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.