Ask Quotes - page 5

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. (George Carlin)
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.
Herbert von Karajan
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
Adnan Oktar
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
Edmund Burke
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
Tyra Banks
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
Margaret Mead
This was a good enough dinner, to be sure but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Samuel Johnson
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. (Emil Cioran)
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.
Emil Cioran
My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises the baby makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven Wright
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
Frank McCourt
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
Alice Walker
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Anthony Burgess
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
Robert Browning
Ask me no questions, and I 'll tell you no fibs. (Oliver Goldsmith)
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
Ann Richards
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Richard Bach
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk