But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.
I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.
Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.
I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves. " Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.
I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U. S. , I was asking, Where is my food?
Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things. . . people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'