Asking Quotes
2209 quotes by 1723 authors
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My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?
— Tite Kubo
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Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is.…
— Sharon Shinn
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If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself…
— Mortimer Adler
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You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume…
— Nick Hornby
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the…
— Amy Hempel
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish…
— Lloyd Alexander
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s…
— Conan O'Brien
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Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should…
— C.S. Lewis
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I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do…
— Neal Shusterman
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I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.
— Richelle Mead
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He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his…
— Richelle Mead
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We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The…
— Lisa Kleypas
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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.…
— Spider Robinson
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Now you know I’m a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I’ll just keep asking it until you lose your…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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