Top 100 Without Asking Quotes
#1. Boys," said Hermione Granger, "should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#2. He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
#3. Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
Joseph Stiglitz
#5. Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
#6. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Amy Vanderbilt
#8. How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.
Lorrie Moore
#9. Life Its A Journey That Hurts Without, Asking Are You Ready?
Andile Num
#10. Can you train yourself to love the right man? Of course you can. The problem is forgetting about the wrong man, the one passing by who came in a door that was left open without asking permission.
Paulo Coelho
#11. You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
Jeanette Winterson
#12. I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously.
Peace Pilgrim
#13. I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
Mike Weir
#14. In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.
Chinua Achebe
#15. 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
#16. A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.
Edward James Olmos
#17. The more clearly we can see the walls of our life, the better. Even if it's only a psychological boundary, even if, deep down, we know that death will still enter without asking, it's comforting to pretend that we have everything under control.
Paulo Coelho
#18. See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
W. H. Auden
#19. Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation
Alija Izetbegovic
#20. Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?
Lauren Myracle
#21. Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
Rita Dove
#22. Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
Seneca The Younger
#23. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.
Lisa Jewell
#24. You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
Alice Walker
#25. My mom yells at someone behind me. I spin with my hand on Pooky Bear, ready to pull out my blade. But it's just my mom throwing rotten eggs at someone who took an empty soda bottle without asking.
Susan Ee
#26. The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#27. The more specific your questions the better. If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions.
Patrick King
#28. Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life ... The "why" of life makes it meaningful ... Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
Hu Shih
#29. In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.
Eknath Easwaran
#30. If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
Mike Zimmer
#31. But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
Hermann Hesse
#32. The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
Jacques Verges
#33. Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time
Sunday Adelaja
#34. If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
Frans De Waal
#35. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Gabor Mate
#36. I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.
Cheryl Lynn
#37. Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked.
"Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants, and so there's nothing at all he really does want.
Tove Jansson
#38. When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.
Brian Jett
#39. No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.
William O. Douglas
#40. I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
Francis Ford Coppola
#41. You don't take away my freedom without asking first.
James Dashner
#42. A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Andre Malraux
#43. If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking, it is the police. If you want to know who protects you from the police, it is the people who take without asking. And very often they are the same people.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.
Dean Koontz
#45. Without asking anybody's advice
I turned myself insane
sitting under the same sun
and the same clouds.
Suman Pokhrel
#46. Here is the holy message coming from the bridges: Help people in silence without asking anything in return!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#48. I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.
Susan Kay
#49. Do not God's visitations unnerve us? But why? Because He never comes to us without asking us to do something. We never know what He will ask of us, but we know that we will be overwhelmed by our feelings of inadequacy
Calvin Miller
#50. A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
Robert A. Heinlein
#51. If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.
Haruki Murakami
#52. Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.
Milan Kundera
#53. People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
Jack O'Brien
#54. I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose.
And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.
Jenny Valentine
#55. Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
#56. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.
Umberto Eco
#57. Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Lars Ulrich
#58. You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
Flannery O'Connor
#59. If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister Eckhart
#60. You're doing that crazy mastermind thing again," Cuff said.
"Which crazy mastermind thing?"
"Where you talk to the other masterminds and one of you leaves something unsaid, and the other knows what that thing is without asking
Wildbow
#61. We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
Jochen Zeitz
#63. The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
Thomas Piketty
#64. Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.
Karin Slaughter
#65. I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.
Ann Aguirre
#66. Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
Amy Carmichael
#67. Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.
M.C.A. Hogarth
#68. This giant among giants had never used his strength to intimidate me. His power lay in making me fall in love with him, and to do that, he'd laid himself at my feet, offering all that he had and all of himself without asking for anything in return except my heart.
R.J. Prescott
#69. He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was all done by
Mark Twain
#70. If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.
Elaine A. Cannon
#71. It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
Michael Otto
#72. God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
Michael Moore
#74. I'm mesmerized, lost, and found again. By bright blue eyes, little lips, and a soft cry. By dark hair and perfect ears. By his untouched innocence, unconditional trust, and love: all three given without asking the first time I look into his eyes
K. Bromberg
#75. I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
Ray Dalio
#76. Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all
being able to work without asking anybody's permission.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#78. God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.
Bonar Law
#79. Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.
Sun Simiao
#80. The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
George Bernard Shaw
#81. How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
Kahlil Gibran
#82. It was a Saturday and Granny and Elsa were going to an exhibition about dinosaurs. That was the morning Mum put the Gryffindor scarf in the wash without asking and made Elsa take another scarf - a vomit-green one. Mum knows Elsa hates green. She really lacks empathy sometimes, that woman.
Fredrik Backman
#83. Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.
Sam Levenson
#85. I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.
Enrico Caruso
#86. Don't let a day go by without asking who you are ... each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
Deepak Chopra
#87. Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
Eden Sher
#88. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.
Sheila M. Reindl
#89. When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied.
Peace Pilgrim
#90. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
C.S. Lewis
#91. Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Julian Barnes
#92. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#93. Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
Wendy Wasserstein
#94. I'm asking for you to save my life because with every breath in my body, I love you. I'll love you until my last. Without you, I am no longer someone with a reason to live.
B.B. Reid
#95. When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.
Nick Vujicic
#96. I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.
Michael Buble
#97. Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always have to be passive in sex?
Nenia Campbell
#98. More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.
Nathan Lowell
#99. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.
Thomas Lye
#100. Look, all I'm asking you to consider is that you have the power to change things. What if the reason you were given that power is to defend those without any? Both from external and internal harm. Like a shieldmaiden for your people.
Mary Weber
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