Asking Quotes

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

I think every year, my role changes. And I am an open house for advice, for anyone to use. It's just a matter of asking questions.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

You shouldn't ask why do you wear a hat? What you really should be asking is why are you not? How can a look be complete without a hat?

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

Stop asking, start doing.

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.