Top 100 Ask Not Quotes
#1. Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
Paul Negri
#2. A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
H.M. Forester
#3. Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs ... We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.
Mike Hulme
#4. Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.
John F. Kennedy
#5. Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
A.E. Housman
#6. In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.
Richard Dawkins
#7. Let the winds blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow.
Let the stars fall, lad
We'll answer the call.
Let the dark come, lad
Ask not where it's from.
After the fight, lad
We'll see morning's light
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#8. Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.
Brendon Burchard
#9. It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
William P. Young
#10. And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.
David Maraniss
#12. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
Thomas Campbell
#13. Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
Quentin Crisp
#15. I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
Walter Savage Landor
#16. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
Mark Steyn
#17. Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me
Jerry Seinfeld
#19. That's not how I'd planned it to be."
"How did you plan it to be?" I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious.
"I planned it to be a million different things," he replies. "And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.
David Levithan
#20. That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
Anthony Eden
#21. Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.
Moises Naim
#22. Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.
Bernie De Koven
#23. you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?
Charles Stross
#24. Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.
Jessica Simpson
#25. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
#26. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Mikhail Naimy
#27. It is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come. One man is concerned with leaving behind him an illustrious reputation, another wants his shame to be forgotten; all would like to follow the thread of their own actions' consequences; but
Italo Calvino
#28. Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne
Meg Cabot
#29. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
J.F. Kennedy
#30. The living of Laudomia frequent the house of the unborn to interrogate them: footsteps echo beneath the hollow domes; the questions are asked in silence; and it is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come.
Italo Calvino
#31. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117)
Jenny Sanford
#32. Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.
Ricardo Montalban
#33. When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
Allen West
#34. We ask not "Which religion alone is true?" but "What end is most ultimate, even if many are real?" and "Which life will I hope to realize?
S. Mark Heim
#35. ...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!
Mark Batterson
#36. When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? ... The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty ...
W.E.B. Du Bois
#37. If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
Saadi
#38. Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually,
David McCullough
#39. O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
Napoleon Hill
#40. I kiss her on the mouth. She looks around nervously. I watch her reflection in the BMW.
"What's wrong?" I ask. "Not here", she says, but as if "not here" is the promise of somewhere better.
Bret Easton Ellis
#43. Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you must ask not only what fruit they bring to the world, but what fruit they yield on the inside of your life and your heart. I
Shauna Niequist
#44. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
#45. Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has
William Osler
#46. Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.
Sebastian Seung
#47. I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.
John Edgar Wideman
#49. God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
Catherine Marshall
#50. Sometimes the ethical - the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them.
Sheri Fink
#51. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
Robert A. Caro
#52. Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.
Anthony Liccione
#53. Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto.
John F. Kennedy
#54. Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.
Mikhail Naimy
#55. Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.
John F. Kennedy
#56. We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
Ron Fournier
#57. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#58. He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat, for all of life? No machine could run that long without a stumble. Ask not if the beating cranks are going to jam, but when.
Giulio Tononi
#59. ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.
Amy King
#60. There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#61. By all means don't THINK about the validity of what they're claiming your life hinges on. Oh do not ask what IS it. Do not ask not whether it's not insane. Simply open wide for the spoon.
David Foster Wallace
#62. Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.
William Mace
#63. ( ... ) juries should ask not "Is he guilty?" but rather "Is he dangerous?
Julian Barnes
#64. Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
Bertrand Meyer
#65. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson
#66. Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do ... " speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
Peggy Noonan
#67. It was a rule of secret-keeping, in which she was well-versed: Ask not, lest ye be asked.
Laini Taylor
#68. something glorious a minute later. How could anyone not have an orgasm? While she didn't ask for his cock, her mouth opened as she gulped in air. Perhaps it was when she dropped her head back that he understood she was ever so close, because he shut off the vibrator and pulled it out.
Vella Day
#69. But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#70. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
Barry Lyga
#71. If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
Alexander McQueen
#72. If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
Mother Teresa
#73. The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.
Dean Wareham
#74. I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope.
Rod McKuen
#75. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.
Rita Zoey Chin
#76. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To
Ethan F. Becker
#77. Where does the road goes? Sometimes it is better not to ask this question and take a chance! This kind of courage can create a wonderful magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
Cara Delevingne
#79. Then teach me how to not care about someone who was everything to me. All I want is to know she's okay. Is that too much to ask?
Ellen Hopkins
#80. This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V.S. Naipaul
#81. If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
George Orwell
#82. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#83. I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#84. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
Sheryl Sandberg
#85. I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
Warren Bennis
#86. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
#87. I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.
Lewis Black
#88. We're not doing one of those things where you need me to ask you a bunch of questions so you can get comfortable talking about your feelings, are we?" Alex laughed. "That never works." "So let's not do it." On
James S.A. Corey
#89. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#90. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...
Jennifer Estep
#91. If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
#92. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
James C. Collins
#94. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.
Rachael Taylor
#95. Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
Janelle Monae
#96. I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
And there is no hurry about it;
I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
Seeing that long standing increases all things
regardless of quality.
Ezra Pound
#97. I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.
Kim Kardashian
#98. There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
#99. Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?"
"I need a gun."
This was not how his dream was supposed to go.
Shannon K. Butcher
#100. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
