Quotes About Not Asking For Much

#1. It was the equivalent of asking a little girl not to scream the first time she was personally introduced to
Hannah Montana.

J.A. Saare

#2. Rumor had it that during the last home stand, someone had called the stadium ticket office asking what time the game started and was told, "What time can you be here?

Mike Shropshire

#3. We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

Jeffrey Bland

#4. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.

Ann M. Martin

#5. Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

John Scalzi

#6. Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

Chester Bennington

#7. I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.

George W. Bush

#8. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!

Paul Lockhart

#9. Asking for advice is an act of humility ... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

Dennis Bakke

#10. I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

Antoine Fuqua

#11. Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her.

Kristin Hannah

#12. There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

Meghan Daum

#13. If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it comes to women. I like that expression very much, even though I disagree. If anything, Wendell has more marbles than he needs when it comes to women.

Francisco X Stork

#14. Sign your work ... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

Seth Godin

#15. Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Agona Apell

#16. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.

G.A. Aiken

#17. I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

Matthew McConaughey

#18. The subconscious mind often speaks the truth. You should listen to it once in a while. Maybe then, you would be asking me not to stop for much more pleasant reason.

L.J. Kentowski

#19. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

Mother Teresa

#20. I'm not asking much,' he said. 'Only a miracle. Can you do this?'
Wong looked down at the briefing papers in front of him for a moment. Then he looked at Tambi in the eye. 'Miracles we have fifteen per cent extra surcharge. Is it okay?

Nury Vittachi

#21. If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Eva Braun

#22. Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

Norman Vincent Peale

#23. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

William Faulkner

#24. Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?
"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little.

Patrick Ness

#25. could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.

Sophia Amoruso

#26. When people call for "deeds, not creeds," asking, "What Would Jesus Do?" without much interest in the query, "What has Jesus done?" identifying themselves as "spiritual but not religious," they are asking for the law without the gospel.

Michael S. Horton

#27. One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.

Jael McHenry

#28. In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

Edward Grey

#29. In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

CM Punk

#30. My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Elizabeth Hernandez

#31. If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

Mother Teresa

#32. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

Abhijit Naskar

#33. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Eddie Marsan

#34. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.

Jojo Moyes

#35. Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

John Cusack

#36. G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Elizabeth Warren

#37. Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

David Dark

#38. Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.
Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Robert Fanney

#39. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#40. Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind .

"Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius

Jim Butcher

#41. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#42. Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

Eden Sher

#43. People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Carrie Fisher

#44. Laying down a challenge means more than directing people to do it. It includes asking the hard questions that no one yet has the answers to and then backing off so that the people within the organization have the space to think through the questions, take ownership, and find the answers.

Liz Wiseman

#45. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

Allison Winn Scotch

#46. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.

Andy Weir

#47. However, God the Holy Spirit spoke to me, saying "You have to stop asking people for your financial and material needs; instead, ask Me. I am your bread winner.

Jimi Akanbi

#48. Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

Warren Buffett

#49. I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

Martha Stewart

#50. Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

Paul Bowles

#51. We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

Robert Reich

#52. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Jack Canfield

#53. We should however not seek to abdicate our duties to God, asking God to come and do what we are supposed to do.

Sunday Adelaja

#54. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.

K.D. Sarge