Top 100 When You Ask Quotes
#1. I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#2. When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do.
Matthew Pearl
#3. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#4. Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Walter Darby Bannard
#5. On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.
Jakob Nielsen
#6. When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
Brady Quinn
#7. [T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering
not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?
Melissa Senate
#8. But it was iron after all, and when you ask iron a question it doesn't answer.
Wieslaw Mysliwski
#9. We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
Jane Pauley
#10. When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.
Helen Steiner Rice
#11. When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.
Aerin Lauder
#12. If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.
Jerry Vlasak
#13. When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
Judy Blume
#15. Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
Khalil Gibran
#16. Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Marianne Williamson
#17. What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things
either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
Plautus
#18. Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, Music.
Suzanne Collins
#19. When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
Tom Rath
#20. When you ask for what you need and receive what people and the world have to give, you reduce stress and gain energy. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#21. I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.
Tom Heinsohn
#22. Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'
Rumi
#23. Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!
Thomas A. Edison
#24. When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
Brene Brown
#25. You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.
Michael Bassey
#26. In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.
Dave Barry
#27. Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Erwin Chargaff
#28. When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.
Gary Zukav
#29. I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Drake
#30. When you ask "Do you wanna dance, my barefoot Cinderella? Don't need no slippers or a party dress,the way you're lookin' right now is what I like the best", and then you ... Say "do you wanna take a chance? Stay with me forever, no one will ever be more beautiful my barefoot, my barefoot Cinderella.
Miley Cyrus
#32. When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.
Gary Oldman
#33. Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
Sara Paretsky
#34. Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?
Tom Spanbauer
#35. You may not be given the whole story when you ask for guidance, only the part you are psychologically equipped to handle.
Catherine Carrigan
#36. When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between yourself and your guides and Teachers. That is what a blessing is: the opening of a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance.
Gary Zukav
#37. When you ask yourself, whoever you are, that think you're going to support Donald Trump, think, do you believe in the Constitution? Are you going to change the Constitution?
Rand Paul
#38. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#39. Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
Philip Reeve
#40. God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have."
Jim Cymbala
#41. Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.
Hans Christian Andersen
#42. When you ask people, "What's America's longest war?" they usually answer "Vietnam" or amend that to "Afghanistan," but it's neither. America's longest war is the war on drugs.
Don Winslow
#43. When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.
Robert Jordan
#44. When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.
Angela Bassett
#45. When you ask a girl out and she suggest a bar, you're answer shouldn't be great, I like that bar and they'll have the Rockets game on too.
Iliza Shlesinger
#46. I'll do whatever I have to do to protect you. I'll lie, cheat, and steal to make you okay. I'll share your suffering, and I'll carry you when you're weighed down. I'll never leave you, not even when you ask me to. Do you believe me?
Tarryn Fisher
#47. you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once
-when you ask if we can still be friends
Rupi Kaur
#48. Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
Slavoj Zizek
#50. You must be careful when you ask people whether they're happy; it's a question that can upset them a great deal.
Francois Lelord
#51. Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
Peter Drucker
#52. don't you see how
hard speaking is for me?
how hard
breathing is?
don't you see that
I'm a negative space
cut from the
universe and
when you ask
me to breathe
i am trying to
will myself
into
being?
Darshana Suresh
#53. When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
Philippe Halsman
#54. You should smile, look her in the eyes, and give her a small complement when you ask her out.
Auliq Ice
#55. When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.
Pete Rose
#56. Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
Jaron Lanier
#58. Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.
Peter Leithart
#59. When you ask, feel and believe- you receive. You hold everything in your consciousness. There is an unlimited supply of ideas waiting for you to tap into and to bring forth.
Hina Hashmi
#60. One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.
Christiana Miller
#61. One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.
James Lankford
#62. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
#63. So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.
Edward Witten
#64. I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
Andy Warhol
#65. I'm sorry, Miraculous One, it's difficult to think of new titles for you when you ask short questions.
Jonathan Stroud
#66. Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.
Selma Lagerlof
#67. The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want.
Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'
Marianne Williamson
#68. Over the years, when I've seen players retire, when you ask them about it, they always say you'll know when you're ready, and I think I know when I'm ready. I think I'm ready.
David Beckham
#69. Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.
Chirag Tulsiani
#70. When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
Mo Ibrahim
#71. If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary.
Jerry Vlasak
#72. Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.
Richard Carlson
#73. Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.
Wangari Maathai
#74. One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
Alan Rickman
#75. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.
Lionel Suggs
#76. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.
Dana Arcuri
#77. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Aristotle.
#78. I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.
Tobin Bell
#79. Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read.
Shelly Branch
#80. To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
John Sayles
#81. When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
Andrew Dominik
#83. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?
Jimmy Fallon
#84. When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.
Anil Dash
#85. need and want that His Word has promised and believe you receive them when you ask for them. Then you will have whatever it is you need from God. Some people continually ask me why God won't heal them after they have had many people pray for them and have had no results. Very
Kenneth E. Hagin
#86. If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.
Rickson Gracie
#88. I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
Raquel Cepeda
#89. When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.
Jessica Valenti
#90. My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume
#91. A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne
#93. When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.
Esther Hicks
#94. What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
#95. When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."
Vince Gill
#96. I like it when you ask me to come!" he called after me. "I can't wait to come tonight, Ziggy! Should I come around eight? Or do you want me to come around ten? Maybe I'll come both times?
Christina Lauren
#97. When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.
Eric Lindros
#98. Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's a writer, and when you ask him how to learn to write, he says, "write." So basically, do it and keep doing it until you get good.
Fred Haslam
#99. My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
Brian Lamb
#100. You know what happens when you ask too many questions, Dizzy? Someone will ultimately tell you to shut the fuck up. (Mr. Branch)
Brian Azzarello
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