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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss -- Langston Hughes
Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ï¿½He who is content. -- Epictetus
Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world . -- Diogenes
Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". -- G. H. Hardy
[Asked what he thinks about most during the day] Women. They are a complete mystery. -- Stephen Hawking
Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." -- Henry David Thoreau
If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me To -- Diane Warren
I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph. -- Marilyn Manson
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. -- Mae West
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. -- Cyril Cusack
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.' -- Mitch Hedberg
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. -- George Carlin
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.' -- Steven Wright
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart. -- Hillary Clinton
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. -- Mike Johanns
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. -- King George V
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. -- Pope Francis
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. -- Steve Jobs
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' -- Julian Fellowes
I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.' -- Ben Carson
My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. -- Suresh Raina
I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.' -- Yvonne Strahovski
What tinfoil?" he asked. -- Maureen Johnson
Sinatra asked me out. -- Dorothy Malone
I never asked for stimulus. -- Paul Ryan
Men aren't asked about their children. -- Julianne Moore
He gives before he is asked. -- Paulo Coelho
Oliver Twist has asked for more! -- Charles Dickens
Christ asked for everything he got. -- Simon Raven
Don't give advice unless you're asked. -- Amy Alcott
Never follow anybody who hasn't asked why. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Pretend I asked, now answer the question... -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Never follow anybody who hasn't asked "why". -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Where's the bit about Lazarus? he asked. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for. -- Dennis Lehane
Are you Lewis Carroll?" Redd asked him. -- Frank Beddor
I've been asked to pose for Playboy. -- Elizabeth Jagger
Sometimes, we just have to be asked. -- Donald Trump
I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I've never asked for a happy ending -- Lauren Kate
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I never asked anybody to take me seriously. -- Jessa Crispin
If ever asked to look at yourself, don't. -- Bob Dylan
(When asked what a director does) I help. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
We asked for workers. We got people instead. -- Max Frisch
Chaste is she whom no one has asked. -- Ovid
I have never asked a prime minister for anything -- Rupert Murdoch
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot. -- Sam Snead
Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me. -- Elaine Stritch
Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it. -- Sharon Moalem
I've been asked to do various types of cruises. -- John Oates
This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey? -- Melissa de la Cruz
Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? -- George W. Bush
If you're over stressed it's because you're under asked. -- Mark Victor Hansen
People who really appreciated animals always asked their names. -- Lilian Jackson Braun
He asked me if I had adequate health insurance. -- Janet Evanovich
"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny." -- Janet Morris
Nobody has asked me if I support [Paul] Ryan. -- Donald Trump
If someone asked you, why not help him out? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All we are asked to bear we can bear. -- Elizabeth Goudge
I don't give my advice unless it's asked for. -- Blythe Danner
Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard. Kinda. -- Lil B
It's nice to be asked to do good projects. -- Dougray Scott
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic? -- Jay Leno
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me. -- Brennan Manning
If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked. -- James Webb
I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. -- Albert Einstein
[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches. -- Carol Mann
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double. -- Catherine Deneuve
we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams. -- Charles Bukowski
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. -- Georg Baselitz
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. -- Colette
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. -- Steve Miller
Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally. -- Leonard Roy Frank
Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black -- Stephenie Meyer
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom. -- Anton Chekhov
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me. -- Karen Morley
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate. -- David Hockney
I never asked to be born in the first place. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's -- Bill Hader
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I really prayed and asked God for my first film. -- Anthony Hemingway
Well, I asked him who would start the war first. -- Samantha Smith
I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips. -- DJ Jazzy Jeff
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready. -- Sarah Kay
If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry. -- Richard K. Morgan
Pure women are only those who have not been asked. -- Ovid
Took over my city and I never asked permission to. -- Drake
I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?' -- Brian Harvey
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. -- Colette
You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance. -- Amy Poehler
Stocks have tanked. Shouldn't you have asked for that money back? -- John McCain
It's a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show. -- Boris Kodjoe
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. -- Adolf Hitler
You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you. -- Cassandra Clare
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be? -- Gertrude Stein
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. -- Virginia Satir
Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" makes one feel OTHERED. -- Celeste Ng
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence -- Alan Green
I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked. -- Bob Ross
I feel like women are asked their age more than men. -- Kristen Wiig
I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone. -- Rachel Hore
I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom. -- Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. -- Benazir Bhutto
When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate -- J. P. Morgan

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