Asking Quotes - Page 15

• I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

  John Waters

  Couple, Years, Bags

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• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Marriage, Lying, Giving

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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• It don't cost money to ask.

  John Steinbeck

  Cost, Asks

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.50, Hamilton Books

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• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Reality, Magic

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• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Writing, People, Singing

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• Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “China Men”, p.107, Vintage

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• One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

  Mary Frann

  Girlfriend, Jeans, Wish

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• I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

  John Powell

  Dream, Prayer, Want

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Thinking, Attachment

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• The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

  Joseph Girzone

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

  Deepak Chopra

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 12, 2011

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• At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Asking Questions, Illustration

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• 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

  Meaningful, Live Life, Men

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• Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Advice, Risk

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  Faith Hill

  Sun, Grew Up, Grew

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• In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Jobs, Law

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

  Lawrence Block

  Knows, Pointless

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• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  Lance Burton

  Children, Parent, Favorite Child

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• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say "no" to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Want, Helping, Easy

  "The Power of 'No'" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  Sandra Fluke

  Taken, Blood, Example

  "CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

  Susan Cain

  Keys, People, Letters

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• You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

  Hope Davis

  Nice, Good Luck, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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