Asking Quotes

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Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that… — Voltaire
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints… — Louisa May Alcott
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he… — Meg Cabot
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what… — Barack Obama
The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out… — Chuck Palahniuk
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How… — Leo Buscaglia
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott
Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do? — Chuck Palahniuk
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase… — Neal A. Maxwell
I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably… — Nick Flynn
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They… — Banksy
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. — Randy Pausch
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of… — Arthur Golden
When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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