Quotes on Asks

He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.