Asking Quotes
2209 quotes by 1692 authors
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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able…
— Sojourner Truth
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Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured…
— Sheri L. Dew
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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional…
— Alex Haley
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And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a…
— Patricia Briggs
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I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the…
— Michael Shermer
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You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one…
— Joel Osteen
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After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state…
— Paulo Coelho
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Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did…
— Douglas Adams
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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of…
— Mother Teresa
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where…
— Melina Marchetta
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I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.
— Aimee Friedman
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Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
— Wendy Wasserstein
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She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the…
— Gail Carson Levine
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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the…
— Douglas Coupland
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This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through…
— Che Guevara
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