Top 100 Don't Ask Quotes
#1. We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'
Precisely,' said a passing bush.
Terry Pratchett
#2. In the beginning there was nothing, only time. But since there was no one to count the time, there might as well have been nothing. And then there was an egg. Don't ask how it got there, OK.
Isabel Greenberg
#4. The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
Joseph Campbell
#5. What do you think he wants?" ...
"Don't ask me, I'm not a psychotic maniac." He paused. "Well, not as much of a psychotic maniac.
Julie Kagawa
#6. When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That
Michael Lewis
#7. And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't
What Was I Talking About?'
Jay Leno
#8. I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I'll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don't ask me to live apart from you again. Because ... I can't.
Colleen Houck
#9. Don't ask me why I know the future. Ask me why you should know it.
Robin Sacredfire
#10. When the economy goes sour, there are three different kinds of restaurants that do well: the smaller-scale neighborhood restaurants that don't ask much of you; those that have banked enormous goodwill by offering great value during the boom; and those with proven records of excellence, a sure thing.
Danny Meyer
#11. Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Rita Mae Brown
#12. Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.
Michael Josephson
#13. When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.
Timothy B. Tyson
#14. Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !
Bob Marley
#15. Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
Helen Reddy
#16. You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented ... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
Joel Salatin
#17. The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
Paulo Coelho
#18. If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.
David Gerrold
#19. Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.
James Hearst
#21. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
Alfred Bester
#22. I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!
Tom Hanks
#23. I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill
#24. Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian.
DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T
Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.
Jude Watson
#25. You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#26. So,uh, where am I, exactly ? And what do you plan on doing with me ?"
"You're at Underworld General Hospital. As you can probably guess, we specialize in nonhuman medical care. Our location is secret, so don't ask."
"UGH ? Your hospital is called 'ugh' ? Oh, that's precious.
Larissa Ione
#27. The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question.
Darryl Hurd
#28. Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#29. I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#31. I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.
Lil' Wayne
#32. I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Zadie Smith
#33. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
Eva Hesse
#34. If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
Napoleon Hill
#35. How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?
L.M. Montgomery
#36. I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
Tab Hunter
#37. Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,
And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,
And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.
Robert Bly
#38. If you don't want my answer, don't ask me the question.
Abby
#39. Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld
#40. If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.
Moby
#41. Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides,
Jose Gonzalez
#42. Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.
Chellie Pingree
#43. If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.
Rahul Dravid
#44. He looked glad to be on his way and made a beeline for the exit. Just as he was out the door, however, he stuck his head back in.
"I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked, and ran.
Bones arched a brow. I sighed.
"Didn't hear that part? Never mind. Don't ask.
Jeaniene Frost
#46. What's wrong? Please, Creed, tell me"-Annika
"Just take me to bed, baby. Please just fuck me and don't ask me any more questions tonight."
~Creed
Sydney Croft
#47. Please don't ask me to let you go. I can't do it. I'm not strong enough to do it again.
Nashoda Rose
#49. Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.
Jim Rohn
#50. If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#51. Our generation may be able to listen to sermons in a Joseph Campbellish way, treating Bible stories as instructional myths pointing to a deeper communal reality - that is, if we haven't replaced them with Star Wars myths or their equivalent - but don't ask us to believe with our heart and soul.
Gudjon Bergmann
#52. So much for you to learn, Empress. Beware the inactivated card." One Arcana's powers lay dormant - until he or she killed another player. "Who is it?" "Don't ask, if you ever want to know.
Kresley Cole
#53. Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.
Stephen King
#54. When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice ... and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler
#55. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
Nora Roberts
#56. I believe in, "You don't ask, you don't get.
Carla Harris
#57. What does she see in him?"
"Power. Money." I might have imagined the pause. "Sex."
"That's disgusting."
"You asked. Don't ask things you don't want to know the answers to. I don't have time to argue. Can you walk?
Nenia Campbell
#58. The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
Rick Springfield
#59. If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
Arthur Ashe
#60. Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
Paulo Coelho
#61. I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please.
Dave Matthews Band
#62. In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn't brought it up, and they hadn't brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don't ask, don't tell.
Kami Garcia
#63. Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.
Michael Dorris
#64. I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
Sally Mann
#65. Don't ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.
Porochista Khakpour
#66. Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
#67. I don't ask other artists for too much advice.
Blake Shelton
#68. I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.
Allen Iverson
#70. We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
Jack Falahee
#71. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
Barbra Streisand
#72. I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies
Ian Botham
#73. You can't lead if you don't know what you were made for. You can't know what you were made for if you don't ask the one who made you! Know your creator; know yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. Howard Thurman once said, Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.
Steven Kotler
#76. There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
Agatha Christie
#77. Just take me and molt me and turn me inside out, till, like a character in Ovid, I become one with your lust, that's what I wanted. Give me a blindfold, hold my hand, and don't ask me to think - will you do that for me?
Andre Aciman
#78. ...They called the lake Bob. Don't ask me why. "Gonna go sit by Bob," someone would say, or "Bob looks like hell this morning.
Erin Saldin
#79. And I just sat there eating my pasta and thinking, Please don't ask me what I do please don't ask me what I do ...
Tiffany Reisz
#80. People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#81. When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.
Bernie Glassman
#82. I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
Boman Irani
#83. You know you've done enough
When every bone is sore,
You know you've prayed enough
When you don't ask any more,
You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
When every dream you've dreamed has passed
And your still standing.
Patty Griffin
#84. If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
Gene Simmons
#85. For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.
Robert Reed
#86. What?" "She won't bite or scratch or she'll vomit. She's a vegetarian." Oh boy. "But when she's in beast form ... " He shook his head. "She eats grass. Don't ask.
Ilona Andrews
#87. Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.
Thom Yorke
#88. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. He does what he wants, and I don't ask," he said. "He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It's not my business. But if you're asking me if I've brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don't want anybody but you.
Cassandra Clare
#90. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.
Stephen King
#91. Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.
Drake
#92. If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
#93. What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.
Charles Barkley
#94. Sometimes the hardest things are the ones we don't ask for. Sometimes life is just damn hard.
Kaitlyn Oruska
#95. Don't ask, don't tell means that World War III will pit the Chinese Red Army against the Pink Army of the United States.
Bill Gaede
#96. Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams
Jared Leto
#97. I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#98. There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.
Echo Bodine
#99. Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens.
Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.
Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#100. Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.
D.R. Silva
