Top 100 Asked For Quotes
#1. You were the first thing I had asked for, just for me, in a long, long time.
Mary Ann Rivers
#2. Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.
Nigel Hamilton
#3. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
George R R Martin
#4. You spend a long time waiting for life to start - the past year or two filled with all these firsts, everything new and terrifying and significant - and then it does start and you realize it isn't what you'd expected, or asked for.
Megan Abbott
#5. When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
Donald Rumsfeld
#6. Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.
Donna Rice
#7. Christ himself deliberately staked his whole claim to the credit of men upon his resurrection. When asked for a sign, he pointed to this sign as his single and sufficient credential.
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
#8. He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he'd walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.
Hunter S. Thompson
#9. I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.
Henry Cho
#10. I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
Patsy Cline
#11. You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering.
Charlotte McKinney
#12. As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
Gerald R. Ford
#13. The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!
Emma Watson
#14. She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.
Meryl Sawyer
#15. How rough can you take it, Lourdes?' he asked, bringing his mouth very close to mine.
I was trying nor to pant. 'I don't know,' I replied honestly. 'Why don't you show me what you got?'
He smiled, and this time, it very nearly reached his eyes. 'You asked for it.
R.K. Lilley
#16. He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#17. You asked for dark. I'm going to give it to you ... You are the violence inside of me, Aubree. My most exquisite destruction.
Keri Lake
#18. When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
Ryan Lochte
#19. I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.
Jim Harbaugh
#20. When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.
Wallace D. Wattles
#21. If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.
Germaine Greer
#22. When I asked for her best motivational tip, she shared a single sentence she uses with her employees. Whenever she assigns a project, she says, "Make it as awesome as you want.
Lindsey Pollak
#23. When Coach asked for my list of desired characteristics in a mate, I gave him you
Becca Fitzpatrick
#24. Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.
Rajneesh
#25. I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.
Henry Miller
#26. He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?
Julia Cameron
#28. When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter
they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)
Will Schwalbe
#29. And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#30. When I was a kid and an adult asked for me something, I fucking gave it. Because that's what you did. Adults were adults, no matter who they were. Their word ruled. You didn't consider what they could or couldn't do to you and weigh your options. I
Candice Fox
#31. (When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)
Donna Tartt
#32. My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.
Princess Diana
#33. I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.
Fred Astaire
#34. I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three.
Rick Yancey
#35. I've never asked for life to be easy. I've only ever asked it to be interesting.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.
Marcus Samuelsson
#37. When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
Isaac Asimov
#38. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.
Frederick Buechner
#39. St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Doctor just told me I can't have kids. I asked for a second opinion. He said, Why? No one's gonna to let you take kids from this hospital.
Anthony Jeselnik
#41. With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
Don Cooper
#42. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
#43. I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
Davy Rothbart
#44. The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
Robert Fulghum
#45. If asked for an opinion we'll say what we think. And by "what we think" I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that's what our communication boils down to.
Aaron Blaylock
#46. I couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.
Sachin Tendulkar
#47. I can't stop feeling this way. I can't stop falling. I'm so fucking in love with her, it hurts. I want to be the one who wants her, and be the one she wants, just like she asked for.
Lauren Blakely
#48. I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did.
Dean Koontz
#49. Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
Jay-Z
#50. I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.
Marcia Wallace
#51. I'm afraid of everything. Myself. Mother. Lily. Friends who haunt me in the night. Even going to school, which is something I asked for. If I have attitude, it is hiding somewhere deep, someplace I'm afraid I may never find. Jenna
Mary E. Pearson
#52. If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for ... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
Dalene Matthee
#53. President Harry S. Truman is said to have famously asked for a one-handed economist, noting that "all my economists say, on the one hand and on the other.
Greg Ip
#54. if it meant the difference between getting evicted and living in her gas-less car, or asking a state agency for help, she was glad she'd asked for help.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#56. You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.
Cassandra Clare
#57. The advantage of being in command of all the guns was that no matter how nicely you asked for something, it was still an order.
James S.A. Corey
#58. I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.
Andrea Pirlo
#59. Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.
Ronald Reagan
#60. Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history podna."
"Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If the shoe fits ...
Kresley Cole
#61. This book is dedicated to those readers who asked ... and asked ... and asked ... and asked for this. Thank you for all that you've done for me. You rock my world every day.
E.L. James
#62. Hello, Mrs. Tran ... I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars I asked for.
Nenia Campbell
#63. Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
Rudyard Kipling
#64. I got something that people spend their lives looking for. I couldn't have asked for more.
Abbi Glines
#65. I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
Bob Dylan
#66. Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.
Maya Angelou
#67. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie
#68. You asked for help," Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. "That was before you knew me," Wilson said. I'm sorry about that. "I'm not going to tell you not to be sorry," Wilson said, "but I can understand wanting to get your body back.
John Scalzi
#69. superiority as superiority" - automatically denied to those who asked for explanations.
Ayn Rand
#70. You ready?" Royce asked. "For what?" "Turn around. Let's go back-to-back and link arms.
Michael J. Sullivan
#71. Cinderella never asked for a prince, she asked for a night off and a dress
Kiera Cass
#72. If you have an intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you asked for.
Rhonda Byrne
#73. Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!
Mark Leyner
#74. The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
Soren Kierkegaard
#75. I have not asked for life.
But I try to accept whatever
life brings without surprise.
And I shall depart again without having
questioned anyone about my strange
stay here on earth.
Omar Khayyam
#76. As much as it hurts to know he's walking away, I also know that I need to let him. I asked for this. We need this. I need this. I
Colleen Hoover
#77. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.
Emmett Shear
#78. Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated.
Dorothy Dunnett
#79. It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems - he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.
Ted Hughes
#80. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple Black
#82. In any case, Watson, you have turned out to be a prize flat-mate. I couldn't have asked for better.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#83. Did you bring me a hamburger?
Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd never asked for that before.
Coffee?
It's late.
Doughnuts?
No.
What good are you then?
Rachel Caine
#84. She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
Paulo Coelho
#85. I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.
Robyn Schneider
#86. Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Bill Jay
#87. CUSTOMER: I don't know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.
BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?
Jen Campbell
#88. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
#89. What do you not have, Lord Hardford?" she asked. "For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.
Mary Balogh
#90. I didn't just want your light, your power, your strength. I wanted all of you. I asked for it. I fought for it. But you kept it from me and you did it willingly knowing I needed it. I'm sorry, Sam, I've made my decision. I thought I could do it but I was wrong. It's all or nothing.
Kristen Ashley
#92. Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
#93. We had sun, but we asked for a rainbow. We called the drizzle, but we got heavy rains! Now it's gone.. We are left with drizzle, waiting the sun light to pass through. When the sun shines tomorrow, only the drizzle is mine.. Rainbow is yours! And I'm deaf and you're blind!
Heshan Udunuwara
#94. I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Michelangelo
#95. If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark
#97. I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#98. I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur.
Ted Haggard
#99. That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
Gregory Maguire
#100. He was like nothing she'd ever known.
Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.
Ross Turner
