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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? — George Carlin
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts… — Albert Schweitzer
Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me?… — Sean Covey
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. Weâ€™re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their… — Libba Bray
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,… — J D Salinger
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face… — Eduardo Galeano
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough… — Kathleen Norris
Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the… — Douglas Adams
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. — William Blake
Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? — Adolf Hitler
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is… — Albert Camus
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ.… — Henry Miller
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. — Barack Obama
you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've… — Ellen Hopkins
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… — Galway Kinnell
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz

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