Asking Quotes

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'

Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

I want to be like Solomon, and instead of asking for riches ask for wisdom and creativity.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.