Asks Quotes
1142 quotes by 864 authors
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A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
— Kelly Corrigan
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George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us…
— John le Carre
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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
— William James
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at…
— Charles Dickens
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
— Edna O'Brien
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I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun.…
— George Carlin
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I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
— Melina Marchetta
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In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered,…
— Bruce Wilkinson
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Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see…
— Stephen King
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If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been…
— Stephen King
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I…
— Scarlett Thomas
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Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
— Rick Warren
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A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words…
— Walter Mosley
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