Top 66 He Who Asks Quotes
#2. He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.
Walter Benjamin
#4. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Mark Twain
#5. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#6. He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever.
Anonymous
#7. He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't is a fool for a lifetime,
Robin S. Sharma
#8. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9. He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.
Philip Neri
#10. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb
Kevin E. Kruse
#12. Was he real?" I mumble, staring at the phone in my hand. I didn't buy this for myself, did I? "What?" Livie asks, looking up at me in surprise. "Trent, was he real? I mean, I could understand if he wasn't real. Who could be that beautiful and sweet and perfect and want someone as fucked up as me?
K.A. Tucker
#13. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often,
Markus Zusak
#14. For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. LUKE 11:10
Joyce Meyer
#15. Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing."
She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.
Melina Marchetta
#16. I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
Nancy Farmer
#17. My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
Dorothy Allison
#18. Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
Tertullian
#19. He will experience that prickle, that shiver of disgust that afflicts him in both his happiest and most wretched moments, the one that asks him who he thinks he is to inconvenience so many people, to think he has the right to keep going when even his own body tells him he should stop.
Hanya Yanagihara
#20. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
R.A. Torrey
#21. A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.
Ronald Colman
#22. The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Octavio Paz
#23. Eddie who breaks the silence. "How much do you think It knows about what we're doing now? " he asks. "It was here, wasn't It? " Ben says.
Stephen King
#24. He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
George MacDonald
#25. The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#26. When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.
Confucius
#27. Tired?" he asks.
"Tired - yes. Angry - yes. Pissed off - ninety-nine percent of the time. Fun to be around - never."
Gabriel smiles. "Who wants fun when you can have interesting?
Sally Green
#28. Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them
Peter Of Alcantara
#29. The question one asks of the young writer who wants to
know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing novels what
you want to do? Really want to do?"
If the young writer answers, "Yes," then all one can say is:
Do it. In fact, he will anyway.
John Gardner
#30. Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
Agnes De Mille
#31. The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks. 'There are some chapatis,' she replies. 'Can I get something to eat?' he repeats.
Suketu Mehta
#32. I should've died with my parents ... than live in this world," I say, my voice is faint
He asks, "Why choose to die if you can live this world?" He chuckled.
I gave him a faint smile and say, "A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are.
Alyanna Mallari
#33. I appreciate your help, but that still does not satisfy my confusion. Who are you?" she asks as she sits forward.
"I could be asking you the same thing, Mrs. Peeper," he says as he laughs.
Shanora Williams
#34. The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#35. Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.
Raf Simons
#36. He sat forlorn, feeling as if that most feared enemy of sleep had entered silently on a busy night, the one person whom you must come face to face with someday, who asks you, in the earshot of your oldest customers, to mix a cocktail whose name you have never heard.
Thomas Pynchon
#37. Watch your mouth. I pissed on your plan?' he asks incredulously. 'Ava, let me tell you, nowhere in my plan was it written that you would have me restrained and at your mercy. So, it is you who pissed all over my plan.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#38. The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?
Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks.
The Doctor: But what do I call you?
Idris: I think you call me ... Sexy?
The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone.
Idris: We are alone.
The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.
Neil Gaiman
#39. What's going down in your brain?" Pigpen asks.
"Who shot me?"
"We don't know." The way he makes direct eye contact, he's not lying.
Katie McGarry
#40. He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.
Luc De Clapiers
#41. When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.
Dillon Burroughs
#42. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#43. How do you get over a first love?" he asks.
"You never do," Howard says. "It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.
Jonathan Goldstein
#44. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.
Korie Robertson
#45. Who would want him? he asks himself. Certainly not Ahana, who's funny, bright and so beautiful that it hurts.
Durjoy Datta
#46. Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness.
Adam Kovacevic
#47. Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.
Rahul Gandhi
#48. On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds?
So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
Abu Umamah Al Bahili
#49. When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
M.J. Rose
#50. Who is this?" he asks. "I've seen him hanging around you like some lovesick puppy. Is he one of the Nephilim?
Cynthia Hand
#51. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
Anthony Trollope
#52. The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.
Francois Guizot
#53. A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is not trying to let sleeping dogs lie.
Mallory Ortberg
#54. Who knows CPR?" asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He's wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. "I do, but man, I'm so stoned." "Try
Stephen King
#55. Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.
Pope John Paul II
#56. Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"
Mario Balotelli
#57. The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
#58. The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.
Alec Waugh
#59. Mr. Kendrick was born on a horse and he'll die on one, and maybe that's not something you can breed for. He's one of those rare men who can make a horse work for him but never asks for more than they have. WOW. Very unexpected.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.
Victor Hugo
#61. It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.
Arsene Wenger
#62. Are you sure this is okay?" he asks. "I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who's dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?"
"I like how you added in the 'handsome.
Suzanne Young
#63. He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#64. The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II
#65. He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
Publilius Syrus
#66. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I
A. J. Jacobs
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