Ask Quotes

#1. I was taught to remember, but never question. Wes was taught to forget, and never ask why. We learned our lessons well and were showing them off to a tee. We sat there, just a few feet from each other, both silent, pondering an absence.

Wes Moore

#2. Father God, I ask You to lead me when I'm blinded by ways I have not known, along unfamiliar paths please guide me; Lord, turn the darkness into light before me and make the rough places smooth. I pray these are the things You will do; I know You will not forsake me. (Isa. 42:16)

Beth Moore

#3. before you open your mouth, ask yourself, "Is it in the best interest of the relationship for me to give this unsolicited advice?" If not, then keep quiet.

Christy Largent

#4. I go on Twitter and I ask my viewers, 'What would you like to see next season in my line?' or 'What are things you love to wear?' They're the ones wearing it, so I want to make sure it applies to them.

Bethany Mota

#5. If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Lilly Singh

#6. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?

Justin Vernon

#7. It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

Michael Haneke

#8. I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

James Patterson

#9. I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is.

Francois Lelord

#10. He just said don't ask questions," Megan whispers. "And then he asks if we have any questions.

Rick Yancey

#11. People often ask why I write romance. It's because I believe in heroes and heroines who, after fighting their way through often-formidable obstacles, are rewarded with a happy ending. When the story's over, their future is just beginning and I really like that idea.

Debra Cowan

#12. 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

#13. A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

Edward Coke

#14. In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

Orhan Pamuk

#15. Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,

Carmine Gallo

#16. That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly of all.

Rebecca Serle

#17. Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Oswald Chambers

#18. Shortly after you have awakened, go into your sanctuary of silence. Get still and focused. Then ask yourself this question: 'What would I do today if today was my last?

Robin S. Sharma

#19. 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

#20. When the lights go out, the parents cry and ask each other what did he do to her, but the girls are burning with a question of their own: what did she do? What does she know now that makes her so dangerous, like the slow amber leak of a noxious fume?

Eleanor Catton

#21. If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'

Bob Corker

#22. 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

#23. When people are interested in you, they ask questions.

Kim Holden

#24. I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

Sarah Dessen

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

Sam Keen

#28. One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

Laurie Helgoe

#29. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.

Gemma B. Benton

#30. Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Ricky Martin

#31. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music
then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#32. They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Jodi Picoult

#33. Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.

Jean Vanier

#34. Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it.

Erich Maria Remarque

#35. If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Sheryl Sandberg

#37. On working with other writers: You develop honesty and you can then ask the really embarrassing questions. I have learned so many things I didn't want to know, and they were all a result of interesting interviews for background information.

Dan Alatorre

#38. Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.

Stephen A. Smith

#39. My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.

Nicola Griffith

#40. The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

Michael J. Fox

#41. Ask the average person his views on snakes and he will, within the space of ten minutes, talk more nonsense than a brace of politicians.

Gerald Durrell

#42. Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#43. I break an emcee off proper
Yo don't check me,
Ask your Moms and Pops,
Yo they respect me,
But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

KRS-One

#44. A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

Henny Youngman

#45. Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Kevin Hearne

#46. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Maya Angelou

#47. What are the questions you wish to ask?

James Schuyler

#48. Because he was going to marry her.
"It is customary to ask," she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she'd licked and sucked and kissed not long ago.
"Why?" He shrugged. "I'm not giving you a choice.

Nalini Singh

#49. Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#50. I ask is there anything with a little kick to drink. And this old lady says to me, We don't approve of alcohol. And I says, Well, ma'am, we need to remember Jesus did turn water to wine. And she says, And we're none too crazy about that stunt, neither.

Smith Henderson

#51. How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

Paul Monette

#52. Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Christian Slater

#53. When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

Douglas Horton

#54. Sometimes I ask myself what autumn smells like? My answer is smell of the fireworks of autumn leaves and red wine.

Bryanna Reid

#55. The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!

George R R Martin

#56. Why-why-why! ... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!

Ann Fairbairn

#57. Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me.

Eleanor Brown

#58. Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

Elizabeth Warren

#59. When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

Marina Abramovic

#60. You could find out most things, if you knew the right questions to ask. Even if you didn't, you could still find out a lot.

Iain M. Banks

#61. You mean you don't wear thongs?" I ask, feigning exasperation. "Hell no! I'd be digging that thing out of my ass all night long.

K.L. Grayson

#62. I would not ask from you, Anything that you were not capable of giving, I would not ask from you, Anythng but that which I truly need, I would not take from you, Without giving equal value in return.

Javan

#63. 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

#64. When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

Jenny Lewis

#65. 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

#66. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.

Johnny Gimble

#67. All right," she said a little sarcastically. "I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?"
"I languish in sin," I replied in the same tone. "I take my babies rare, and my virgins over easy.

Nenia Campbell

#68. At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#69. I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.

Toby Stephens

#70. I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Woodhull

#71. All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

#72. We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#73. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck

Jodi Picoult

#74. My Dear Julianne,
If you wish to know how I feel about you, just ask me.
Yours,
Gabriel

Sylvain Reynard

#75. Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

Sam Altman

#76. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.

Joy Davidman

#77. Even at that age I had stumbled upon one truth, and that is, the best way to get misinformed is to ask a lot of questions.

Jack Black

#78. My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Guido Van Rossum

#79. Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

Walter Darby Bannard

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

#83. Tell you what, why don't we go ask her brothers what they think of your claim?"
"I'd rather beat you to a pulp.

Jennifer McKeithen

#84. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

Rebecca Taylor

#85. Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere ... We should forget all about some particular teaching; we should not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true teaching.

Shunryu Suzuki

#86. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves.

Julia Cameron

#87. If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

Monica Ali

#88. I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

Sam Raimi

#89. With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

Rafi Fine

#90. We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

Joseph Lowery

#91. Always ask yourself the question Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Bob Proctor

#92. What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.

Danielle Steel

#93. Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.

April Sinclair

#94. 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

#95. I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

Paul Feig

#96. Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Maurice Saatchi

#97. It doesn't take any special training to ask the right question. Nor does it require a high IQ. The only real resource required to ask what people might love is time.

David Sturt

#98. Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?

Dejan Stojanovic

#99. Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.

Michael Hyatt

#100. Most people ask ineffective questions of themselves, in their head, which trigger lame or negative thoughts and negatively affect their feelings, decisions and results.

Maddy Malhotra