Ask Quotes
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“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”
Colin Bateman -
We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.
AnNa R. Rosenstolz
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I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.
Philip Henry -
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
Edwidge Danticat -
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin -
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
Andrea Camilleri -
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
Plutarch -
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Plato -
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
Nicholas A. Christakis -
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore -
I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.
Anzia Yezierska -
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know...
Ina May Gaskin -
I hate it when people ask “What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?” Like. Awfully bold of you to assume I’ve reached peak dumbness.
Sanha Astro
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor -
My problem is, sometimes, I'm just too proud to ask for help.
Sanha Astro -
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The implementation of don't ask, don't tell's repeal has gone very, very well.
Allyson Robinson -
Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
Satya Nadella -
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
Sonny Liston
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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Abraham Lincoln -
When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
Aurora Levins Morales -
Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.
Nick Drake -
Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.
Aya Nakahara