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You create your opportunities by asking for them. -- Shakti Gawain
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Asking is the beginning of receiving. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Asking is the beginning of receiving... -- Jim Rohn
Asking good questions is half of learning. -- Elijah Muhammad
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. -- Anne Rice
Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral. -- Penn Jillette
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence. -- David A. Bednar
Asking why is the root of a scientific mindset. -- Eraldo Banovac
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after. -- Cath Crowley
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high. -- Taylor Momsen
Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer. -- Jeff Henderson
Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom. -- Andy Stanley
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. -- Daniel H. Pink
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. -- Robert Half
Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. -- Nick Nolte
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? Asking for myself. -- Gary Gulman
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom -- Charles Spurgeon
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland. -- Bjork
Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being. -- Michael Hyatt
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea. -- Saul Alinsky
Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved -- J.D. Greear
Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend. -- Jim Gaffigan
Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day. -- Tom Baker
I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. -- Roger Moore
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer. -- T. B. Joshua
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power. -- Elizabeth George
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. -- Thomas Sowell
Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask. -- Rhonda Byrne
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. -- Thomas Pynchon
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. -- Jean Cocteau
Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood. -- Cal Thomas
Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. -- Raymond Geuss
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often. -- Karen Marie Moning
Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you. -- Adam Carolla
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. -- Julia Roberts
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance. -- Will Rogers
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance -- Will Rogers
Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup -- Jodi Picoult
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor. -- Warren Farrell
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. -- John McCarthy
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. -- John Osborne
I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't. -- Kieran Culkin
Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut. -- Warren Buffett
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs -- John Osborne
If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old. -- Sofia Vergara
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. -- John Perry Barlow
Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom. -- Henri Nouwen
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' -- John Cleese
Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does. -- Virginia Axline
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. -- Chester Bennington
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me? -- Brian Tracy
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph. -- Dennis Rodman
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. -- Leonard Cohen
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. -- Sydney J. Harris
Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most. -- Jen Lancaster
Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. -- Lesa Howard
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. -- Rita Dove
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. -- Jim Rohn
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. -- Frank Moore Colby
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? -- Bertrand Russell
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress. -- John Boehner
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. -- Thomas Berger
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. -- Lillian Smith
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' -- Brian Tracy
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. -- Paul Tillich
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. -- Mika Brzezinski
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. -- James Stephens
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. -- Terry Gross
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. -- Eminem
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. -- Monica Ali
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' -- Aaron Copland
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. -- Rachel Cusk
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. -- Linda Sanchez
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. -- Ralph Fiennes
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. -- Vikram Seth
I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created. -- Steve Harvey
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life. -- Louie Anderson
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
Stop asking, start doing. -- Ava DuVernay
Understand the power of asking. -- Drayton Bird
That's a question mark everyone's asking -- Bruce Grobbelaar
When I stop asking questions, something's wrong. -- Rene Marie
Inside any deep asking is the answering. -- Rumi
Everyone is always asking me about clothes. -- Paul F. Tompkins
Got everything I'm asking for but you. -- Drake
Are you asking me or telling me? -- Irvine Welsh
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. -- Mary Astor
Effective management always means asking the right question. -- Robert Heller
Half of science is asking the right questions. -- Roger Bacon
Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve. -- Mika Brzezinski
Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
True prayer is asking God what He wants. -- William Barclay
Shouldn't you be asking for my name first? -- Kip Fulbeck
Many things are lost for want of asking. -- George Herbert
Pain is a message asking for our help. -- Gerald Epstein
All I'm asking for is what I want. -- Rickey Henderson
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. -- Isaiah Berlin
Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys. -- Liza Mundy
When will you start asking different questions? Better questions? -- Shah Rukh Khan
Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking. -- Jacob Young
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? -- Ann Landers

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