Asks Quotations

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation ...

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I used to be my mum's stylist, picking things out for her to wear. I'd say to her, 'If anybody asks you who styled you tonight say, 'Georgia.'

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

If anyone approaches me and asks if I'm Mollie from The Saturdays, I'm immediately shy and embarrassed.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don't have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.