Quotes of: Asking-questions Keyword

The person with burned fingers asks for tongs.

Samoan

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

Ricardo Montalban

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

I didn't ask to be born!" "No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!

Touching Fire

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

Sheryl Sandberg

And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can't even see them! I therefore believe that it's not signs people should be asking God for; but you should be asking God for Sight!

C. JoyBell C.

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

Stephen Jay Gould

You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept “No” for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demanding — you’re begging. A...

Amanda Palmer

They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

If a beautiful sunflower is somehow supposed to be evidence of the Christian god, then what is a parasitic worm that eats children’s eyeballs evidence of?

50 Simple Questions for Every Christian

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

50 Simple Questions for Every Christian

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

The Monstrumologist

An ear shaped like a question mark is not receptive to life’s answers.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderato...

Jim Lehrer

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life