Top 100 Ask For Quotes
#1. According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.
John R. Rice
#2. Each time you ask for guidance and act on the wisdom you receive, you align your mind with the mind of God; you tap into a stream of conscious guidance that is divine intuition.
Lynn A. Robinson
#3. (Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
John McGraw
#4. I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.
Jorja Fox
#5. A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.
Kristan Higgins
#6. My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee
Philip II Of Macedon
#7. One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner
#8. I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
Mary-Louise Parker
#9. Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.
Brene Brown
#10. Tom, Tom, Tom," I said, fingering the top of the knife bar, which was dusty; I'd take care of that later. "You lost the right to ask for sympathy about three minutes ago. Now get out of our home before I stab you again.
Camille Pagan
#11. Kiss me, Jack," I begged, forcing myself to ask for what I truly wanted for once. "I can't," he replied with a sigh of frustration. "Please," I whimpered desperately. "When I kiss you, it will be everywhere. When I kiss you, I won't stop there. If I taste you, I'll want to taste everything.
L. H. Cosway
#12. Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!
Michael Connelly
#13. Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.
Beau Taplin
#14. Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.
John Wood
#15. I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.
Jane Austen
#16. I am not cruel," she says again. "But remember this, Master Santoro. I only ask for obedience. If that is too hard, I can help. It is easier to obey without a tongue, and easier to kneel without legs." Teren
Marie Lu
#17. I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
Clara Hughes
#18. I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.
Chuck D
#19. Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
Morris Gleitzman
#20. A woman is at the funeral of her mother. There, she meets a man she doesn't know and has never met, who she thinks is her dream partner. But because of the circumstances, she forgets to ask for his number, and she can't find him afterward. A few days later, she kills her own sister. Why?
Jodi Picoult
#21. There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#22. I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more.
Miguel Cotto
#23. your fate is mortal: what you ask for isn't.
Ovid
#24. You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.
Paul David Tripp
#25. The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
#27. The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
Bertie Carvel
#28. One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.
Lev Shestov
#29. God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
Ben Carson
#30. You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#31. Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests. A master who cannot bestow on you the gifts of his experience may direct rancor and ill will at you instead.
Robert Greene
#32. With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer ... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words ... What more can you ask for?
F. Murray Abraham
#33. I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?
Mary Balogh
#34. Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.
John F. Kerry
#35. Every night someone on the other side of the river would stand up and take a shot at us. We would dutifully call it in and ask for permission to return fire. The answer was always a very distinct, "NO!" Very loud and clear.
Chris Kyle
#36. He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. "I didn't ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and it's stayed with me ever since. I want to be with you. I need to be with you." His tone was both angry and helpless.
Scott Speer
#37. It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
Amy Poehler
#38. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He
Rabindranath Tagore
#39. I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.
Wendy Brenner
#40. Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
William Shakespeare
#41. Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car.
Rob Liano
#42. Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
Marianne Williamson
#43. Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
Michael Dell
#44. In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Catherynne M Valente
#46. Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.
Brian Regan
#47. I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.
Mario Balotelli
#48. If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
Iyanla Vanzant
#49. It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.
Tucker Max
#50. We've learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#51. No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for them, that we may know whence they come: when in all gifts we find Him, then in Him we shall find all things.
George MacDonald
#52. We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
John Piper
#53. I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
John Lennon
#54. trying to embarrass me? You don't ask for bags at a farmer's market. Is you crazy?
G.L. Tomas
#55. 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
#56. I fell in love with you in a blink of an eye, Ava. You represented everything I could ever want and the one thing I was most terrified to ask for. The power of what I was feeling scared me to my very core and made me love you and hate myself for being the wrong man for you
Diana T. Scott
#57. Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
John Milton
#58. I looked back to Dominic, who was watching me with unguarded affection. "You are insane, infuriating, and in dire need of aid if you're going to survive this," he said. "My help was always yours. All you had to do was ask for it." "I'm asking," I said. "Then I'm yours.
Seanan McGuire
#59. I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager
#60. If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.
David Jeremiah
#61. "I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within."
Louisa May Alcott
#62. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#63. Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
Reynolds Price
#66. I can't eat pizza. If we actually end up with a pizza, it's going to be your responsibility to consume it. Do not let me have any. Even if I ask for some." He pauses. "I'll probably ask for some.
Robin Sloan
#67. Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.
-Nina
Karen Greco
#68. I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.
Rod Serling
#69. And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend?
Stephenie Meyer
#70. I consoled myself with the fact that I had max. He's warm, attentive and completely devoted. Who could ask for anything more
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
Sammi Carter
#71. I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
Shane Carruth
#72. In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful
Pope Francis
#73. Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?
Johnny Bench
#74. People often ask for my advice and counseling, but overall, the best advice I can give to anyone at any time is: never complete a negative statement.
Bear Heart
#75. Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard
George Matheson
#76. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
Leo Buscaglia
#77. Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.
Alton Brown
#78. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#79. My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous ... long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling ...
Henry Cavill
#80. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Maya Angelou
#81. What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.
Naomi Oreskes
#82. We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture.
Francis De Sales
#83. If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
Mary Ruefle
#84. The only way to get what we want from life is to ask for it." I
Patricia Engel
#85. The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.
Cassandra Clare
#86. Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.
Les Brown
#87. Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.
Kelly Blatz
#88. If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.
Libba Bray
#89. Wisdom of the ages you seek, lad? I offer but one word: treasure. At what price does this treasure come, you ask, for not all does silver and gold make? If it be treasure you seek then you are a pirate!
Kerry Lynne
#90. I know why you do what you do, and I get it. But from one ex-martyr to a current martyr ... get over your bullshit and ask for help.
Samantha Young
#91. When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.
Beau Bridges
#92. About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.
John Quincy Adams
#93. I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.
Lynne Truss
#95. Lord, today I ask for a renewed sense of purpose in my smaller daily choices, knowing that how I spend each moment is how I live my life. Every choice matters.
Stormie O'martian
#96. The universe with its endless possibilities is waiting for you to ask...ask for what you want.
Beth Reed
#97. But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#98. If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
William J. Clinton
#99. I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.
Shirley Temple
#100. I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.
Martin Lawrence
