Asking Quotes - page 47

...negotiations will be an exercise in futility and frustration. Barnier's two-phase negotiation announcement amounts to a rejection of the principle of ... negotiation. He is, effectively, saying to you: First you give me everything I am asking for unconditionally (Phase 1) and only then will I hear what you want. (Yanis Varoufakis)
It's a little bit like the rich imposing poverty on the poor and then asking to be loved because of it. View quote
Carl Sagan
People are always asking, 'Is everything ok' Look, I was not depressed, ok I was just freaking exhausted. View quote
Mariah Carey
Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral. View quote
Penn Jillette
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. View quote
Edward de Bono
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which. View quote
Douglas Adams
What people ought to be asking me is "Where do you get those tiny, little infinitesimally faint sparks that you then somehow manage to blow up into ideas?" Of course, my answer would be, "I have no inkling whatsoever." View quote
Caitlín R. Kiernan
There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. View quote
Rumi
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. View quote
Rumi
My little sister, she got me on Facebook because I was on MySpace: "No, no, no. You don't want to be on MySpace, you want to be on Facebook!" So I joined both. But I keep muddling them up, so I keep asking people to come on MyFace. Still, eighty thousand friends! (Shappi Khorsandi)
What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money. View quote
Seth Godin
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution. View quote
Hamid Karzai
Reza Shah had been a powerful leader only partly because of his position, and Mohammad-Reza was fully conscious of the fact that he had few of his father's natural assets. The new Shah had received a democratic training which meant that he knew that there were different views on every issue and that reality could be contemplated from many different angles: this made him hesitant and indecisive where his father had been determined and resolute. Mohammad-Reza wanted to be loved for his person: Reza Shah never knew what love was, asking only to be obeyed. The new Shah was polite and shy and anxious not to offend: the old Shah deliberately terrorised members of his entourage in order to keep them constantly on their guard. Reza Shah had been a born leader; the new Shah had to learn to become one. View quote
Amir Taheri
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask. View quote
Salman Rushdie
She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning. View quote
Tamora Pierce
Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me. View quote
Tamora Pierce
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote. View quote
Mitt Romney
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. View quote
Wendy Wasserstein
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. (Gertrude Jekyll)
America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance. View quote
J. C. Watts
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. View quote
Maxine Waters
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. View quote
A. N. Wilson
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that. View quote
Condoleezza Rice