Asking Quotes
2209 quotes by 1723 authors
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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to…
— Norm MacDonald
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I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question…
— Emma Watson
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all…
— Harry Yoxall
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I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do
— Adolf Hitler
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other…
— William Thurston
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I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.
— Rosario Dawson
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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
— Anton Chekhov
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the…
— Richard G. Scott
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Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very…
— Michael Milken
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If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
— Jack Canfield
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More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.
— Roger Babson
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Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
— Mary Oliver
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The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives...and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get…
— Mother Angelica
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