Asking Quotes
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
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What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....
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Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
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So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
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I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.
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What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
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Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!
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A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.
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My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.
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Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?"
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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
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It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.
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Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated
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When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say "no" to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.
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You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
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I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do.
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Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?
