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?
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got through molding it. We can't help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don't know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.
The two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.
Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them. . . . Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.
Who are we to ask God if it is his will.
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. . . Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Never ask a bore a question.
When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.
She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.
Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
You will receive what you ask for no more, no less
Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask. " "How old are you?" "It's none of your business