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Quotes About Asking

Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions
~ Sinclair Lewis
ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love— ORESTES: What are you asking? ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.
~ Sophocles
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
~ John Taylor Gatto
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
~ Barbara Corcoran
I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.
~ Lindsey Vonn
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~ John Sexton
But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.
~ Arthur Golden
All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
~ Sigmund Freud
I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. That's what he was asking me to extinguish—the small child as well as the man—all that love, all that history. And
~ Jojo Moyes
Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.
~ Mary Callahan Erdoes
I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.
~ Helen Thomas
People have been asking me since I did 'Carried Me, The Worship Project,' 'When are you going to do another worship project?' And that's my favorite one.
~ Jeremy Camp
It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
In science, all sensibly phrased questions are at least potentially answerable, while answers to the questions of faith are, by their very definition, unknowable. With The Sparrow, I hoped to show that both kinds of questions are worth asking, and worth thinking deeply about.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
~ Barbara De Angelis
What couldn't they hear? They were going so fast they couldn't hear the universe whispering to them. What was the universe saying? The universe was saying "yes" to whatever they might ask for.
~ Steve Chandler
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
~ Erma Bombeck
This is the simple basis of this eternally expanding Universe: • Variety causes contemplation. • Contemplation produces preference. • Preference is asking. • Asking is always answered.
~ Esther Hicks
The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
~ Ira Glass
One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.
~ Rose McIver
Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.
~ Mark Lanegan
To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.
~ Atif Aslam