We Ask Quotes

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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing. — Philip Pullman
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not goodâ€” Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? — Robert M. Pirsig
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the… — Jacqueline Carey
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? — Nelson Mandela
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do… — Joel Salatin
...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated… — Thomas Bernhard
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? — W. Somerset Maugham
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up… — Jose Saramago
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and… — Charles Bukowski
we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to… — Michael Pollan
God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought… — Andrew Murray
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We Ask the Gods for Answers and They Give Us Questions — Christopher Moore
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a… — Madeleine L'Engle
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. — Milan Kundera
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. Thatâ€™s because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointâ€”ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give… — George MacDonald

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