Asks Quotes

• Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Faces, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Sometimes, Dreams Come True

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long Distance Relationship, Nature, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Pieces, Paper

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• I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

  James Frey

  Running, Fall, Mean

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.83, Penguin

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• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Despair, Noise

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• The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

  Arthur Ashe

  Judging, Use, Way

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• Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

  Suzanne Collins

  Reality, Katniss, Snapping

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

  Christopher Pike

  May, None Of Your Business, Old You

  Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Liberty, Want

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Shadow, Going Away

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Earth, Care

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015

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• one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Husband, Years, Wife

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.214, Dial Press

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• Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Appreciation, Attitude

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• Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Who I Am, Quality

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 22, 2014

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• I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, Sex, Stupid

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• Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

  Cory Booker

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Nov 14, 2013

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• Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

  Simon Sinek

  Understanding, Listening, Asking

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2012

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• Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

  Drake

  Humble, Advice, Asking For Forgiveness

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

  Alan Sugar

  Two, Stupidity, Littles

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• If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

  Sheila Walsh

  Change, Encouraging, God

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, People, Needs

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• How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Church, Tape

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• Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  "A UNIQUE MOMENT': Obama to announce first gun steps with Biden this a.m. - POTUS is TIME Person of the Year -- Sen. Portman, Joey Scarborough bday" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. December 19, 2012.

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