I Ask Quotes

778 I Ask quotes by 574 unique authors

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to… — Yann Martel
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what… — Kurt Vonnegut
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I… — Helen Keller
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a… — Charles M. Schulz
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile. — Ned Vizzini
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves… — Anais Nin
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. — Mother Teresa
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even… — Ayn Rand
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the… — Nick Hornby
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a… — Philip Pullman
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up. — Michel de Montaigne
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause… — Joss Whedon
Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth."… — Lauren Child
Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I… — Walt Whitman
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or… — Charles Dickens
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? — Don Marquis

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