Top 100 You Should Ask Quotes

#1. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#2. Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there."
I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming the gym.
"Well?" Annabeth asked.
"Um, who should I ask?"
She punched me in the gut. "Me, Seaweed Brain."
"Oh. Oh right.

Rick Riordan

#3. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

James C. Collins

#4. No one should have the right to ask you to keep promiseespecially if they don't consider all the facts.

Bree Despain

#5. Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

Lincoln Chafee

#6. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#7. If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I'm about to do

Kanye West

#8. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

James Wong Howe

#9. Travis walked me to class, his grip tensing a few times when my feet slipped on the ice. "You should be more careful," he teased.
"I'm doing it on purpose. You're such a sucker."
"If you want my arms around you, all you have to do is ask," he said, pulling me into his chest.

Jamie McGuire

#10. Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That's a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it.

Joe Vitale

#11. Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see "Why are you not leading"?

Carlos Wallace

#12. He whispered in the king's ear, "If you ask me, I think you should find a wife for Siddhartha. Once he has a family to occupy him, he will abandon this desire to become a monk." King Suddhodana nodded.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.

Christina Engela

#14. You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

Colson Whitehead

#15. His Zen is genetic. You should meet his parents. You could rob them at gunpoint and they would still ask you to dinner and make sure you got everything valuable in the house,

Rachel Higginson

#16. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

Baron Vaughn

#17. I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

Lisa Scottoline

#18. People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?

Dwight L. Moody

#19. If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

Michele Bachmann

#20. I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.

Bill Engvall

#21. You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

#22. You don't start communities, he said. Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do. The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.

Jeff Jarvis

#23. Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).

James C. Dobson

#24. You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

Bette Davis

#25. And it's always the lilac garden on the other side of the river. If the soul should ask you if that is far from here, you should say, On the other side of the river, not this one, but the one over there.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#26. You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life

Jaci Burton

#27. Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

ASAP Rocky

#28. Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. Ladies, let this be a lesson. People always say you need to be nice to nerds, because you might end up working for them some day. The same goes for nerdy guys who ask you out. You should be nice to them, because one day they might be smoking hot.

Rachel Van Dyken

#30. Well." I lean forward seriously. So do Vanno and his bedmates nearby. "If you really want to know, you should ask your mother.

Pierce Brown

#31. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Anonymous

#32. 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

#33. Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.

Kristin Hannah

#34. It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Goldie Hawn

#35. At Baupost, we constantly ask: 'What should we work on today?' We keep calling and talking. We keep gathering information. You never have perfect information. So you work, work and work. Sometimes we thumb through ValuLine. How you fill your inbox is very important.

Seth Klarman

#36. If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Vikram Seth

#37. I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

Sachin Kundalkar

#38. A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, "If I do this, am I going to die?" If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you.

Darren Hardy

#39. Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Saint Augustine

#40. I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

Chanda Kochhar

#41. When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

Paul Halmos

#42. If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

Frank Herbert

#43. Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

Wally Herger

#44. An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

Bruce Lee

#45. All I can tell you is that we have to re-live the gospel every time we pray. We have to re-live it every time we go to church. We have to re-live the gospel on the spot and ask ourselves what we are doing in the courtroom. We should not be there. The court is adjourned.

Timothy Keller

#46. If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#47. If you ask people, 'What do you think, should we kick kids off their family insurance policy in that 21- to 26-year-old age range?' You go through those ... provisions that are already affecting the everyday lives of Americans, and people don't want to get rid of them.

Tim Kaine

#48. ... do not ask yourself which kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western..Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, definitions'.

Elif Shafak

#49. It's fine to have a dream girl, but you should ask yourself ... would you be her dream boy?

R.M. ArceJaeger

#50. I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Jim Dale

#51. Why should I have to ask you? You're a grown man! You should just know!
And there it is, kiddies. The Famous Female Mind Fuck.
That's short for: If you can't read their minds? You're fucked

Emma Chase

#52. If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

Margaret Atwood

#53. Can I ask who you are, sir?"
"Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

Robert Galbraith

#54. I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?'
Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy name, but I could tell his curiosity was piqued.
'The Secular Church of Kurt Vonnegut,' I said.
'Jesus F Christ,' said Mr Peterson.

Gavin Extence

#55. Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. Can't you ever stop joking?"
"No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is?

Elizabeth Peters

#57. Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

Chetan Bhagat

#58. 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

#59. Should I ask about the handcuffs? (Tate)
Not unless you want to live ... otherwise if anyone asks, tell them I died of a heart attack during a wild sexcapade with her. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#60. You should never ask God to do what He has said He's already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.

T.L. Osborn

#61. Who the hell do you think you are?" your darkest interior voices will demand. "It's funny you should ask," you can reply. "I'll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor

Elizabeth Gilbert

#62. You will forgive me, for I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the Dandelion, make but sorry figure in a Drawing
room
Did you ask me out with a bunch of Daisies, I should thank you, and accept

Emily Dickinson

#63. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.

Satya Nadella

#64. I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't.
- Hope

Rachel Gibson

#65. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

Carrie Vaughn

#66. Mom says you should never ask for advice you aren't willing to take. I wasn't sure I agreed. Having an unbiased pair of eyes point out a sensible solution was helpful. But the sensible thing and the right thing weren't always the same choice, and no one but you could truly understand the difference.

Jenn Bennett

#67. I think you should go to the ball with me." She clutched her fingers. His expression was too genuine, too sure. Her nerves tingled. "Stars," she muttered. "Didn't you already ask me that?" "I'm hoping for a more favorable answer this time. And

Marissa Meyer

#68. My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.

Joseph Delaney

#69. Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

Craig Ferguson

#70. If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#71. Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.

Twiggy

#72. That's not how I'd planned it to be."
"How did you plan it to be?" I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious.
"I planned it to be a million different things," he replies. "And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.

David Levithan

#73. Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"
She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. "It's when your chest falls into your drawers. Get ready for it, honey, because with that rack of yours, you'll be using them as knee pads before you know it.

Annelise Ryan

#74. Don't ask God what He's doing. That's the wrong thing to ask. Ask Him what you should be doing.

Lynn Austin

#75. When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?

Michael Singer

#76. To get the answers, you should ask the correct question!

Deyth Banger

#77. Nick's eyes were like ice. "Maybe we should talk about what happened in third period today. I didn't even ask if you were okay."
What a bastard. "Shut up."
"What happened?" said Michael
"Nothing," said Chris. He glared at Nick across the table
Good little brother.

Brigid Kemmerer

#78. The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

Ray Dalio

#79. For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#80. When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

Sharon Draper

#81. I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#82. You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Elizabeth May

#83. It's always easier to wonder, to ask yourself what if, to think you could have done it differently, should have done it differently.

Kristen Kehoe

#84. It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,
should you choose to go on with my chronicle,
simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

Anthony Trollope

#85. You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#86. So keep your head down, and none of them will bother you. Though Lucien - he could do with someone snapping at him, if you've the courage for it." I didn't, and when I went to ask more about whom I should try to avoid, she had already finished with my hair and opened the door to the hall.

Sarah J. Maas

#87. As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

Olivia Wilde

#88. Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

Homer

#89. If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I'll tell you what I'd like them to buy - nothing. I'd like people to stop buying and buying and buying.

Vivienne Westwood

#90. Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

Will Schwalbe

#91. I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do.

Kelley Armstrong

#92. It'll be the Date to End All Dates," I told Gary as he nosed his way through my closet. "And yes, before you ask, it is capitalized just like it sounds. Great plans should always be capitalized.

T.J. Klune

#93. Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

Norma McCorvey

#94. Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Herb Kohl

#95. In your relationship, you should not have to play the detective to get to the truth; you should be able to ask the question and he give you the answer. It should be as simple as that.

Amari Soul

#96. I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Chelsea Clinton

#97. Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.

George Lois

#98. You should not ask questions without knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#99. And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?" "Oh, my goodness, yes," said Anna. "He wrote a book you could kill a man with - twelve hundred pages - called A New Kind of Science. It's all about them." "We should totally ask him what he thinks!" Caitlin said.

Robert J. Sawyer

#100. Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

Harold Prince

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