A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.”
“Ask questions to gain awareness of what’s important to you. Then, assess how to implement and prioritize those values in your day and life.”
“Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.”
“Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.”
“Ask that we not allow ourselves to be overcome by a grief which is not ours to indulge but instead be uplifted by faith and enabled to help that suffering family in whatever way we are called to do”
Source: Reservoir 13
“Ask the American public if they want a wiretap and they'll say 'No.' If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child, they'll say, 'Yes.”
“Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes."”
“Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.”
“Ask the blaze of my trail,
if you drown in doubts or dismay -
you exist best when you exist not,
every seeker is tomorrow's yesterday.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Ask the Creator to direct your path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Ask the Creator to direct your thoughts, decisions and actions.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Ask the dust of my footsteps
on sands, where no history sleeps,
the truth of my becoming lies,
where no calendar keeps.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.”
Source: Prologue to Ask the Dust
“Ask the essential question: “What will I say no to?” This is the question that will uncover your true priorities. It is the question that will reveal the best path forward for your team.”
Source: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“Ask the famished tiger for mercy, when you intrude upon his den.”
Source: Varney the Vampire
“Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.”
“Ask the gods nothing excessive.”
Source: Aeschylus
“Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.”
“Ask the hard questions. Ask the questions that scare you. Because if you don’t, the question that you’ll soon be asking yourself is “why has life become so hard and scary?”
“Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you”
“Ask the missionaries, they can help you”
“Ask the next question.”
Source: Slow Sculpture
“Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.”
Source: The Outsider
“Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.”
“Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.”
“Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.”
“Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."”
“Ask the questions. Do not just accept anything without question.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Ask the questions even if you don’t want the answers. For the answers that we don’t want are often the very things that keep us from doing what we shouldn’t be doing.”
“Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.”
“Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.”
“Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.”
“Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only!”
“Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?”
“Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know”
“Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.”
“Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.”
Source: This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012
“Ask the young. They know everything.”
“Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.”
Source: Crazy Eights
“Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.”
“Ask them, then. ...Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them, when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it.”
Source: Six Days of the Condor
“Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.”
“Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.”
“Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?”
“Ask two people to paint an apple, and you'll get two different-looking fruits. The core parts will probably be the same: the color, the shape, the stem. But the details, and the intention behind them—that's where the differences will be.
Ask two people to preserve a memory, and the same thing happens. That's because memory is a workable thing, kind of like art. You can mold it and shape it, build it up or beat it down. The important bits will stay the same, but the details are going to change depending on who is doing the remembering, or when, or why.
So how do you accurately and honestly preserve a memory?
Well, you can't. But you can try.
….
You can't preserve a memory, I think again as I walk away.
All you can do is hold each other tight while the moment lasts and then know when it's time to let go.”
Source: All My Bests
“Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.”
“Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.”
“Ask us for water, we won't let you go unfed, but do not mistake our gentleness as fear. If you so much as lay a finger on our home, we'll defend it with our blood, sweat 'n tears.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix