Unask'd Quotes

#1. Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

James Merrick

#2. Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

M.C. Beaton

#3. I don't know if what I'm seeing are worms, or where they come from, or what they might be if they're not worms, or whether I want them to be worms or not, or what I have to believe about this woman if they aren't worms, or about the world or human bodies or this disease if they are.

Leslie Jamison

#4. I know that I'm the one hurting you now, and I don't know how to fix it, and it's killing me. Because I love you, Leah,

Priscilla Glenn

#5. I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Jenna Bush

#6. I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Amanda Palmer

#7. I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

Emily Blunt

#8. The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

Ken Robinson

#9. I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state

Daniel Ellsberg

#10. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.

Robert M. Pirsig