Asks Quotes
1142 quotes by 874 authors
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The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.
— David B. Haight
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
— Pope John Paul II
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The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
— Saul Alinsky
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Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and…
— Mike Michaud
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If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly
— Penelope Tree
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Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything…
— Roger Rosenblatt
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If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.
— John of Damascus
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting…
— Du Fu
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Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the…
— Henri Nouwen
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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
— E. M. Forster
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To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
— Henri Nouwen
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If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games,
— Steven Gerrard
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life…
— Christopher Dawson
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Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball,…
— Branch Rickey
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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask…
— George MacDonald
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Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This…
— Jack Kornfield
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Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
— Eli Broad
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Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more old-fashioned…
— Julius Adams Stratton
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