Quotes of: Asking-questions Keyword

Deckard: She's a replicant, isn't she? Tyrell: I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them? Deckard: I don't get it, Tyrell. Tyrell: How many questions? Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced. Tyrell: It took more than a hu...

Blade Runner

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting quest...

Yann Martel

You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.

Chasing the Prophecy

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?" "Ask him where he got the boots." "You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

Fade Out

Before when we were talking, were you asking why her?" The aurora above us reflected on his face, and his dark eyes were filled with heat. "Or were you asking why not you?

FrostFire

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Go Ask Alice

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

The House of Hades

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

John Patrick Shanley

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.

The Ask and the Answer

For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for.

Holy Bible: New International Version

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

A Kiss at Midnight

You know what we need?" "A new plan?" asked Lissa. "A miracle?" asked Eddie. I paused and glared at them both before responding. Since when had they become the comedians here? "

Spirit Bound

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

The Magician's Nephew

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.

To the Lighthouse

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.

Life of Pi

Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday. Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present. When I heard that I cried.

Mirad, A Boy From Bosnia

After telling me about her job, she asked me, “What do you do?” I sighed softly and asked rhetorically, “It’s sad. What do you do?

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