Asking Quotes

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

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

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.

Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.