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“I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.”
“I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.”
“I ask him to pull the buttermilk sourdough; I'd taken several of my wet starters, fed them vigorously yesterday, and created three different dough variations early this morning, giving them time to rise. "The green bowl."
"Yeah, okay," he grumbles.
"And I'll take care of the onions," Xavier says. "Why do you need them?"
"Ciabatta," Jude says.
"Dough." I point to the door. He goes and I show Xavier the container of goat cheese. "I need something splashy. I thought a caramelized onion and Chèvre ciabatta."
"Using the buttermilk starter as a base?"
"I consistently get the biggest rooms with it."
"You need a third ingredient, I think. Apricots?"
I nod toward the other table. "Scott's going sweet already. I'll stay savory for contrast. Sun-dried tomato?"
"Meh. Expected.”
Source: Stones For Bread
“I ask, “How may I be of service? Why are you here to see me?” I put a slight emphasis on “me,” and they respond to that, first.
“You ask us to come,” they intone, in unison.
Considering for a moment, I chuckle. “Yeah, I guess so,” I reply. “But, why now? And, I can’t be the only one inviting you. So why come to me?” I repeat.
They make those amused sounds again (at least, that’s what I think they are) and do not respond further.
I shrug and ask, “Will you help us humans? I have lots of questions.”
“We have lots of answers,” one of them says.”
“I ask how much the mafia pays to carry out murders. Fríjol tells me without stopping for a moment. One thousand pesos. That is about $85. The figure seems so ludicrous that I check it out in several other interviews up in the barrios with former and active gang members. They all say the same thing. One thousand pesos to carry out a killing. The price of a human life in Juárez is just $85.
To traffic drugs is no huge step to the dark side. All kinds of people over the world move narcotics and don’t feel they’ve crossed a red line. But to take a human life. That is a hard crime. I can at least comprehend assassins killing to jump from poverty to riches. But for someone to take a life for just $85—enough to eat some tacos and buy a few beers over the week—shows a terrifying degradation in society.
To try to get a handle on how this has happened, I talk to social worker Sandra Ramirez at a youth center in the westside slums. Sandra grew up in the barrios and worked on assembly lines before trying to steer young people away from crime. She says the teenage sicarios are the result of systematic alienation over the last two decades. The slums were a convenient place for factory workers but got nothing from the government. As the factory jobs slumped with the economy, the slums were left to rot. One 2010 study found that a stunning 120,000 Juárez youngsters aged thirteen to twenty-four—or 45 percent of the total—were not enrolled in any education nor had any formal employment.
“The government offers nothing. It can’t even compete with a thousand pesos. It is only the mafia that comes to these kids and offers them anything. They offer them money, cell phones, and guns to protect themselves. You think these kids are going to refuse? They have nothing to lose. They only see the day-to-day. They know they could die and they say so. But they don’t care. Because they have lived this way all their lives.”
Source: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“I ask if I can kiss her
and wonder what door this will open.”
“I ask, if I shall never see you again and fix my eyes on that solidity, what form will our communication take? You have gone across the court, further and further, drawing finer and finer the thread between us. But you exist somewhere. Something of you remains.”
Source: The Waves
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”
“I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.”
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.”
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.”
“I ask Mom if love ever made her feel alone. If it ever made her feel like she was starving in a room full of food.
She laughs. 'Only every day.' She leans over to me, across the gap between us, so that the side of her head touches mine....She whispers something, but I can't hear the words.
'I never thought I'd be the type of person who would do that to someone,' I say. 'Now it's exactly what I am. Forever.'
Mom nods. 'It's always like that.'
'What do you mean?' I ask.
'Whenever I've made a choice in my life, a real choice...I can always feel the change, after I choose. The better versions of myself, moving just out of reach.'
It's exactly what I think. So there's nothing to say....
'I'm always losing better versions of myself,' she says. 'I don't know. You just have to keep trying.'
[Kaui, in conversation with her mother Malia]”
Source: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”
“I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.”
“I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.”
“I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women. Going along with the access of power and the status quo and forging a special position and the thought process that goes: I am not like those women. When it comes to things like assault, for example, perhaps it makes them feel safer. It's the denial: I'm okay. This won't happen to me. Acknowledging that the world is a profoundly unsafe for women is a scary thought.”
“I ask myself all the time—how can someone be so useless in my life and have so much influence?”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I ask myself and I ask my children,
To ask themselves every day,
“What did I learn today?”
- From Poem " Everyday Learning”
Source: The Green Signal: Poems of Virtue, Positivity & Emotions
“I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?
Well,necessary or not, they happen.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.
The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !”
“I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.”
“I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear”
“I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.”
Source: Refusing Heaven
“I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire.”
“I ask myself, "Why am I so serious?" Everyone else asks me, "Why are you such a joker?”
“I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body.
I'm not an NBA player anymore.
At my age, very few people can handle it.”
“I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.”
“I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.”
“I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.”
“I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?”
“I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
“I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.”
Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
“I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.”
Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846
“I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.”
“I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.”
Source: The Complete Poetry by Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.”
“I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.”
“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”
Source: Beyond Life
“I ask of you. Are you my Master?”
Source: Fate/Stay Night
“I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.
“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”
There was a brief pause.
“In the end, they will kill us,” Elend said, voice loud, ringing in the cavern. “But first, they shall fear us!”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky”
“I ask only one thing of skeptics: don’t bring up Soviet Russia, please. That horrible example of State Capitalism has nothing to do with what I, and other libertarian socialists, would offer as an alternative to the present system.”
“I ask only one thing of you.' ... 'The next time you go out, wear better shoes and thicker clothing. Those slippers are likely to be the death of you, and that dress... the death of me.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.”
“I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.”
“I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'”
Source: The Tao of Wu
“I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"”
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”