English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Ask Quotes (page 157)

Chuck Palahniuk quote: "The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was..."
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. Chuck Palahniuk
I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said. Paulo Coelho
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. Mother Teresa
G. I. Gurdjieff quote: "I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself."
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. G. I. Gurdjieff
How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate. Wilhelm Reich
She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape. P. G. Wodehouse
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) C. S. Lewis
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Erica Jong quote: "Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own..."
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. Erica Jong
J. K. Rowling quote: "Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just..."
Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball! J. K. Rowling
People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left. Bill Hicks
Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk". Charles Simic
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it. Kazuo Ishiguro
Jack Kerouac quote: "They never asked, I kept offering."
They never asked, I kept offering. Jack Kerouac

Popular Topics

Popular Author