Asks Quotes
1142 quotes by 874 authors
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a…
— Dorothy Day
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He…
— Oswald Chambers
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The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why…
— Octavio Paz
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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the…
— Warren G. Bennis
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
— Walter Benjamin
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed…
— Melanie Laurent
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We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World…
— Rory McIlroy
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Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of…
— Reince Priebus
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My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is…
— Chance the Rapper
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Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say…
— Asne Seierstad
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If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not…
— Henri Nouwen
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
— Paul Auster
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If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
— Payne Stewart
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we…
— Michel Foucault
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