So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?
That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
Katherine Johnson never complained, it just was what it was. She just said, "I just wanted to go to work and do my numbers. " And she stopped right there. I think about that as a Black woman in Hollywood when I'm asked about diversity. I hate when people say diversity because the first thing you jump to is Black and white. When you talk about diversity, you're talking about women being hired in front of and behind the camera. You are talking about people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community. . . so I hate when people think about diversity.
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.
Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman. "
Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done.
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.
I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.
This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.