Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.
You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.
A man. . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.
We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?
Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.
God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.
I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.
Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you. " "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely. " First, last, and always.
Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want it to come near me. I don't want it to have a voice in my decisions. I don't want it to be anywhere near me. What's my practice? That one. I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.
When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster. '
I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'
And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.
You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.
We ask to be recognized as men.