Asked Him Quotes
186 quotes by 159 authors
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Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was…
— Susan Orlean
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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage…
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
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A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell…
— Martin Buber
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Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and…
— George Hamilton
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My grandfather got me mad and I peed inside his orange juice and asked him if it's tangy.
— Camron
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I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play…
— Ryan Adams
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I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a…
— Harry Redknapp
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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in…
— Black Hawk
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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he…
— Roger Daltrey
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going…
— James Joyce
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way…
— Emo Philips
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He…
— Jane Smiley
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes,"…
— Isak Dinesen
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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned…
— Jose Saramago
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?'…
— Elie Wiesel
Who Wrote These Asked Him Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 186 Asked Him Quotes, led by these top contributors: