Top 100 Never Asked Quotes
#1. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.
Marie Rutkoski
#2. My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."
Patricia McConnell
#3. Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. I had to smile. "How can you not approve of gods when you are one?" He sniffed. "I never asked to be worshipped. Feared, yes." "That's how most religions start. Eddie, the Street is in danger, and so am I.
Simon R. Green
#5. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Joyce Meyer
#6. Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours o the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. i had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.
Chelsea Handler
#7. I asked for this, I thought, at the same time as I never asked for this. Is it possible to both
want and not want something at the same time?
S.J. Watson
#8. Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
David Baldacci
#9. Jesus never asked me to give to an organization the kind of exclusive devotion he demands from his disciples. Over and over, Jesus calls people to himself - out of the church, the culture, the economy, and the family.
Michael Spencer
#12. Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
Baltasar Gracian
#13. She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.
Cassandra Clare
#14. My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.
Marie Osmond
#15. Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
Benazir Bhutto
#16. I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.
Michael Jackson
#17. Paul [Walker]'s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.
Jordana Brewster
#18. In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.
John Updike
#19. She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.
Ayn Rand
#20. We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
Oswald Chambers
#21. You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.
Shirley Jump
#22. He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.
Primo Levi
#23. Safe place. Everybody had one person to be theirs. That one single person in the world that never asked for more than what was given, but always took what was too much to handle. The one person who made everything better, and made someone else better, too.
Bethany-Kris
#24. He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.
Martin Edwards
#25. When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself - because, to my father's credit, he'd never asked me to captain our plagued family's ship - it all collapsed.
Allison Winn Scotch
#26. Now do you understand why you must always strive to be a good prince?" "I never asked to be one!" The woman raised an eyebrow. "What difference should that make?
Rosamund Hodge
#27. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#28. I find myself lacing my fingers together and bowing my head. Sometimes my father did this in the morning before sitting down at the breakfast table, but I never asked him what he was doing. Still, I would like to feel like I belong to my father again before I . . . well, before it's over.
Veronica Roth
#29. Those with no knowledge
Has no thought
The more we see the more we're taught
There is an answer to every Question*
But some Questions are never asked
That's the worlds problems of today
Too many Questions are passed*
Adam Rhee
#30. But ... " Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes."
Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to."
"You never had to," St. John concurred.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#31. Ignifex knew me. And loved me And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him.
Rosamund Hodge
#32. I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
Danica Patrick
#33. I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation.
Mitt Romney
#34. You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.
J.M. Coetzee
#35. All those wasted years spent trying to get inconsequential people to like her. She never asked herself why she should like them.
Mhairi McFarlane
#36. There's always pain behind the fame. Fame which I never asked for. Being in the spotlight has its fair share of disadvantages. I leaned back and fixed my eyes on the stereo and this time his hands were shivering. I wondered what would happen if Tinie Tempah boarded his taxi. He would die!
S.A. David
#37. I'm glad I didn't get my feelings so hurt that I never asked her to do anything with me ever again." "I
Saundra Crum Akers
#38. Where do you go when you disappear? What do you see on the other side?"
"Come with me," she said, running her tongue over her teeth. "See for yourself."
The goose flesh rose on my arms. I never asked her again.
Mike Driver
#39. You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love."
So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.
Susan Howatch
#40. She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.
Meryl Sawyer
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. There are small truths and big truths, just as there are smal lies and big lies, and along those truths and lies run the questions that were never asked and those that were never answered.
R.J. Ellory
#44. I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
And my thoughts are like meals ... I'm a sucker for the seconds.
Amir Mohamed
#45. I've never asked for life to be easy. I've only ever asked it to be interesting.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. And suppose you don't like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I'd never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always have faith in my own judgment.
Truman Capote
#47. I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
David Cross
#49. My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#51. Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Lemony Snicket
#52. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!
Tad Williams
#53. You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
Banksy
#54. I never asked him if he screamed, or if there were upside-down mountain peaks visible through a window.
Salman Rushdie
#55. Sometimes it is subtle - the simple observation of who lives where and works what jobs and who does not. Sometimes it's all of it at once. I have never asked how you became personally aware of the distance.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#56. I'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.
Tahereh Mafi
#57. My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
Marvin Hamlisch
#58. If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
Johnnie Ray
#60. You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.
Eileen Caddy
#61. I should say no to prove a point", He said, his eyebrows pulled together. "But I would hate myself later if I said no and you never asked me again" - Travis
Jamie McGuire
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked.
Anthony Horowitz
#65. Cinderella never asked for a prince, she asked for a night off and a dress
Kiera Cass
#66. You know, I've never asked why it doesn't offend your feminist principles for me to carry this beast for you."
I look at it as exploiting the oppressor," she said, with a sweet smile.
Justin Gustainis
#67. I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
Bob Dylan
#68. 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
#69. I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
Brunello Cucinelli
#70. I was the girl that everyone always assumed was good... so they never asked... but he had and the world stopped.
Jay Crownover
#71. There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.
Sam Simon
#72. I never asked her how she was, because I didn't really think about how she was. I just thought about what she thought of me.
A.S. King
#73. God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
Charles R. Swindoll
#74. (He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.)
Charlie Jane Anders
#75. I realized I'd never asked him about his major. Probably wasn't time travel.I didn't think our local college was quite that progressive.
Myra McEntire
#76. There was her life in a nutshell. Beau was asked. And Mandy wasn't. Mandy was never asked, she was told. And like the good girl she was raised to be, Mandy always complied.
Lisa Mondello
#77. Muttering a curse, he wiped his face with a towel and wondered why everyone suddenly felt that they had to offer an opinion on his love life, although he was fairly sure he had never asked for anyone's views on the matter.
Suzanne Harper
#78. None of it was ever easy, but that wasn't the point. I had never asked writing to be easy; I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. Jesus never asked a question because HE needed to know the answer.
Christopher Bozung
#81. You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them.
Patrick Jennings
#82. There is humanity before the great Remy Johnson and humanity after it, I never asked for that sort of greatness.
James Marquess
#83. As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
Khaled Hosseini
#84. Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.
Anjelica Huston
#85. Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.
Jeanette Winterson
#86. You never asked what my anthem was. But that's okay, because I still don't know what I'd answer.
David Levithan
#87. None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
James Nachtwey
#88. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.
Carol Storm
#89. Because I am well read, I know what a terrible cliche it is to shout, "I *hate* you. I never *asked* to be born," so I refrain.
Caitlin Moran
#90. One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.
Arthur Koestler
#91. Owen, I've never asked a guy to be my whole world before. How do I do that?" "That was perfect," Owen whispered, completely stunned.
Jessie G.
#92. In a relationship, it is not what you ask and receive that delights. It is receiving what you wanted but never asked
Srividya Srinivasan
#93. Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
Colson Whitehead
#94. He'd never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they'd like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves
Helene Wecker
#95. What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!
Pete La Roca
#96. I had made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. The kind who never asked you for faith, hope and charity, but offered you facts, proof and profit.
Ayn Rand
#97. I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
Dolly Parton
#98. How he'd asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he'd saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked.
Celeste Ng
#99. What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?
Chip Heath
#100. Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
Gore Vidal
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