Ask Quotes (page 170)

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• faith
• thoughts
• fact

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one". Mitch Albom

• common
• evening
• single

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence Enrico Fermi

• sister
• touching
• brother sister

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. Victor Hugo

• strength
• faith
• waiting

Take it to your Maker - show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave - ask Him how you are to bear the pains He appointed - kneel in His presence, and pray with faith for light in darkness, for strength in piteous weakness, for patience in extreme need. Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not your hour, the waiting waters will stir; in some shape, though not perhaps the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend. Charlotte Bronte

• travel
• street
• lesson

The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the cemetery. I wasn't a Bokononist then, so I agreed with some peevishness. As a Bokononist, of course, I would have agreed gaily to go anywhere anyone suggested. As Bokonon says: 'Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. Kurt Vonnegut

• happy
• time
• chance

I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. Jane Austen

• personal
• great
• city

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child. Victor Hugo

• lost
• kindness
• lost time

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?"No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust. Haruki Murakami

• gold
• backing
• old-timer

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back. Ava Gardner

• single
• thinking
• people

Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day. Stephenie Meyer

• life
• imagination
• imaginations

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? L. M. Montgomery

• kindness
• lifestyle
• health

[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce... Frank Zappa

• love
• women
• wonder

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love. Charles Bukowski

• his
• asking
• hi

Now what? Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. David Eddings

• question
• questionable
• answer

Pretend I asked, now answer the question... Laurell K. Hamilton