Top 100 Do Not Ask Quotes
#1. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
Michel Foucault
#2. "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
#3. 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
#4. Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."
Judith Krantz
#5. God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.
Robert Lee Wolverton
#6. For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.
Jennifer Beckstrand
#8. Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!
Nikita Dudani
#9. Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.
Felicia Hemans
#10. Please do not ask me," I interrupt, my voice so wobbly the words barely get out. "There are secrets so dangerous one shouldn't even confess them to the dearest of friends.
Aprilynne Pike
#11. Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#12. Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.
Gayle Rubin
#13. 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
#14. Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#15. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death.
J.R. Ward
#16. Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
Frank Herbert
#17. 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.'
Matthew Pearl
#18. Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.
Thomas Sowell
#19. Let us say that this, all of this, has a logic to it. We understand each other, don't we? Are we not, you and I, both of us spirits?
Reader, do not ask me who at this very moment is dreaming you.
Do not ask me when you are going to die.
Do not ask me where the gold is buried.
Dan Chaon
#21. We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
Wole Soyinka
#22. The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them
but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#23. Bandage any part of your body
If people ask about it, make a story and tell
If people do not ask about it,
draw their attention to it and tell
If people forget about it, remind
them of it and keep telling.
Do not talk about anything else
Yoko Ono
#24. Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#25. I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
Aleksandar Hemon
#26. You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
Bernard Moitessier
#27. If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
B. Traven
#28. Ask," promised Jesus, "and it will be given to you" (Matthew 7:7). "You do not have because you do not ask," said James (James 4:2). Even though there is no limit to God's goodness, if you didn't ask Him for a blessing yesterday, you didn't get all that you were supposed to have.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#29. The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.
Jack Hyles
#31. In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill ... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato
#32. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Anonymous
#33. Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#34. Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.
Rod McKuen
#35. I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
#36. Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
Ziauddin Sardar
#37. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Thomas Merton
#38. Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.
Nalo Hopkinson
#39. But do not ask the price I pay,
I must live with my quiet rage
Tame the ghosts in my head
That run wild and wish me dead
Should you shake my ash to the wind
Lord, forget all of my sins
Oh, let me die where I lie
Neath the curse of my lover's eyes.
Mumford & Sons
#40. Your husband would anchor himself to a block of granite should you ask."
"No, I wouldn't," Frey entered the conversation. "So, wife, do not ask."
Finnie threw a smile over her shoulder
Kristen Ashley
#41. Do not let the writer's authority or learning influence you, be it little or great, but let the love of pure truth attract you to read. Do not ask, 'Who said this?' but pay attention to what is said.
Thomas A Kempis
#42. My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas A Kempis
#43. Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,
Nelson DeMille
#44. We're all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
John Wooden
#45. Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.
Bo Sanchez
#47. I do not ask,' said Dee. 'You note I do not ask - but I would swear, by all I have learned, that you are Scorpio.'
'With the sting in the tail?' Lymond said. 'You are probably right.
Dorothy Dunnett
#48. If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
Robert Breault
#50. Every reader should ask himself periodically "Toward what end, toward what end?" - but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
Alan Perlis
#51. Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
T. S. Eliot
#52. My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#53. It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
James Martin
#54. Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.
Anonymous
#55. We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.
Ben Ehrenreich
#56. Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
Honore De Balzac
#57. The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.
Danny Lyon
#58. My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.
Frances J Roberts
#59. The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
Antonin Artaud
#60. TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.
Swami Vivekananda
#61. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.
Chinua Achebe
#62. The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
Maurice Sendak
#63. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
#64. In a relationship there is the information that we need and do not ask for, and the information we have but choose to ignore.
Debra L. Kaplan
#65. We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens ...
Johannes Kepler
#66. First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.
Heinrich Heine
#67. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
Etienne De La Boetie
#69. Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?
Toni Sorenson
#71. He shakes his head sadly at me.'These are the rules we live by. We are soldiers, Penryn. Legendary warriors willing to make legendary sacrifices. We do not ask. We do not choose.' He says that like a motto, a pledge he'd said a thousand times.
Susan Ee
#72. We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.
Viktor E. Frankl
#73. We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.
David Lange
#75. Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.
Andrew Sean Greer
#76. Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus Christ
#77. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
Plato
#78. ... do not ask yourself which kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western..Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, definitions'.
Elif Shafak
#79. I do not ask for your answer now." Brokenstar ignored the warrior's challenge. "You must each go away and consider my words. But bear this in mind: Would you prefer to share your prey, or be driven out and left homeless and starving?
Erin Hunter
#80. Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).
John F. Walvoord
#81. Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Emily Greene Balch
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Anonymous
#84. We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories.
Bill De Blasio
#85. Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.
Jack Gardner
#86. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#87. When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
Raphael Zernoff
#88. I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
Maurice Ravel
#89. We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
Peter Abrahams
#90. Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#91. Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember
nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.
Sathya Sai Baba
#93. While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.
Andrew Thomas
#94. Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
Jules Renard
#95. First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.
John Calvin
#96. And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or to be indifferent to you. Do not ask me to have no interest in how you pass your time. But if we are separated, set me a task, something that will be a daily link with you.
Thornton Wilder
#97. I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me, You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
Walt Whitman
#98. Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
Anna Held
#99. Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
Dakota Fanning
