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The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels. — Kathryn Kuhlman

I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope. — Rod McKuen

The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her. — Julianne Donaldson

I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly. — Darynda Jones

My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind. — Ogden Nash

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? — John Galliano

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for. — Shane Koyczan

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it. — Ira Kaplan

It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions. — Tony Robbins

Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman. — Hans Christian Andersen

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see. — Jerry Bridges

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask. — Kate Mosse

So I am not exactly sure what I imagine and what I remember. Is there a difference? Not much, if you ask me. — Harry Kalmer

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. — Mortimer Adler

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? — James Allen

Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose. — Ian Shoales

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117) — Jenny Sanford

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question. — John Tortorella

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink. — James Whistler

I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. — Daphne Du Maurier

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it. — Jon Jones

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake. — Martin Buber

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure. — Saadi

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all. — John Of The Cross

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back. — Sean Connery

Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some — Jane Hirshfield

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children? — Douglas W. Phillips

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers. — Lemony Snicket

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that. — Paul Haggis

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society. — Sydney Samuelson

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady."
"You are not asking."
"Aye. — Shelly Thacker

It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers. — Isobelle Carmody

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable. — Jeremy Clarkson

Cold prayers - ask the Lord not to hear them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

King Agis said, The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are. — Plutarch

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself. — Rainer Maria Rilke

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not. — Ole Hallesby

As a general rule ... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. — Alexandre Dumas

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation. — Chris Christie

But she's not going to call the cops or stab me in my sleep, and what more can you ask of a pretty girl? — Richard Kadrey

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. — Swami Vivekananda

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were. — Jules Renard

As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it. — Bill Maher

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price

People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people. — Michael Franti

If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones. — Peggy McIntosh

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. — Helen Mirren

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary. — Hugh Prather

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. — Alan Cohen

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. — Charles Sanders Peirce

When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead. — Lois Greiman

Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered. — Mansi Soni

Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. — Patricia Highsmith

I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them. — Andy Andrews

She broke first. "So no, I haven't seen it. I'm more of a reader." Reader, as in ... "And before you ask, no, I'm not a cheesy romance reader. — Riley Mackenzie

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. — Mikhail Naimy

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact. — Erving Goffman

you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you? — Charles Stross

I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? — Robert F. Kennedy

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is "you?" The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't? — Donna Lynn Hope

It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask. — Rita Zoey Chin

Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask! — Jessica Simpson

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer. — Bill Buxton

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. — Ambrose Bierce

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato

Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it. — Anthony Liccione

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. — Gerald R. Ford

We can't ask God to come and fix our nation while we have not done our absolute best. This ought not to be so!!! — Sunday Adelaja

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. — Mark Helprin

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. — Jackie Robinson

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different. — Josh Homme

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not. — Gary Zukav

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. — Cynthia Ozick

Are we not friends?' I ask. My voice is breathy and desperate.
'Not properly, but we will be soon, baby. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying. — A.B. Simpson

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. — John Grogan

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. — W. Edwards Deming

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. — Michel Foucault

Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case. — Jens Spahn

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore. — Mae West

There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions. — Curtis Bill Pepper

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
— Mary Baker Eddy

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant. — L.M. Montgomery

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. — Julian Fellowes

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. — Catullus

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. — Robert Breault

Everyone has to speak of what they know, and what they do not know they should ask, — Jose Saramago

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His. — Louie Giglio

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. — Virginia Woolf

If I might ask
," she began.
Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not. — Cassandra Clare

Thank God for the little things I do have, because I do not ask Him for much. — Angela Brown