Asks Quotes - Page 17

But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.