I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.
I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No. ' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.
There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.
People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything. " I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better. " she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.
As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.
Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.