Top 39 Unasked Quotes
#1. He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.
Rohinton Mistry
#2. I asked myself, 'What would Branwen do in these circumstances?'" He smiled. "The answer came very easily." "Then perhaps such questions are better left unasked," retorted Branwen.
Allan Frewin Jones
#3. The future of your organization depends on motivated human beings selflessly contributing unasked-for gifts of emotional labor.
Seth Godin
#4. The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
Jim Morrison
#5. Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck
#6. Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked - this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind - saving me from perils of overmuch desire.
Rabindranath Tagore
#7. I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked.
Martha Rofheart
#8. The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.
Jon Foreman
#9. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.
Thomas Leonard
#10. This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.
Horace
#11. Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
Randall Robinson
#12. We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.
Carolee Dean
#13. Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment.
Jonathan Galassi
#15. All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Horace
#17. Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept.
Dan Simmons
#18. In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.
John N. Bahcall
#19. Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..
Alberto Manguel
#20. All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?
Nancy Burson
#21. If it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
Charles Bukowski
#22. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.
Jim Morrison
#23. This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace
#24. She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
David Brin
#25. But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less.
A. Lynn
#26. On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.
George A. Sheehan
#27. When it's right, it's simple," he says to my unasked question. "Unlike your hair.
Stephanie Perkins
#28. The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.
Sue Halpern
#29. The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Mark Batterson
#30. When selling, never answer an unasked question.
Jeff Thull
#31. Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures.
David Mitchell
#32. To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.
E. O. Wilson
#33. The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn
#34. I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.
Stephen De Staebler
#35. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
Mark Batterson
#36. I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable ... you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.
Gary Holder-Winfield
#37. The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right?
Sam Keen
#38. She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange.
Zora Neale Hurston
#39. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
Kahlil Gibran
