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“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

Ifs Men Years May Order Next Asks Plans Periods Thousand Draws Safety Reasonable Thousand Years Definite Next Day

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.”

Giving Ends Government Asks Deserve Safety Killing Priorities Journalist Philippines

Author:Warren Christopher

“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'”

Ifs Made Real Character Kids Asks Ask Me

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.”

People Knows Facts Asks Answers Prove Asking Asking Questions

Author:Jim Rohn

“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

Ifs Book Stories Might Asks Wise Written Agony Untold Stories

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!”

Ifs Want Jobs Asks Imagine Scripts Filmmaker

Author:Terrence Malick

“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”

Way Love Needs Children Kids Asks Psychology Asking

Author:Russell Barkley

“I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'”

Kind Would Be Kids Asks Parent Summer Ideals Things To Do

Author:Dwyane Wade

“The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.”

Men Mind Believe Has Beens Matter Lying Asks Found Concepts Calm Truth Of Life Madmen

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“People ask me so many questions.”

People Asks Ask Me

Author:Annie Lennox

“What questions do I want my audience to ask?”

Want Asks Audience

Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.”

People Matter Young Asks Christ Dear Wide Awake Things In Life Wide Awake

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“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.”

People Ifs Should Asks Answers Like Me Best Things

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Littles Ends Self Reason Enough Care Kids Today Faces Asks Grows Growing Up Minutes Fronts Figures One Day Ugly Opinionated Warhol

Author:Banksy

“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.”

Knows World Want Looks Heart Long Stills Hard Shows Eye Asks Easy Magic This World Hard Work Terrible Labor Harder

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything”

People Ifs Knows Christian Asks Heaven Too Much Commit Hey

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.”

Men World Asks Nations Church Answers Cutting Cry Brother Blessed Every Man Hungry Abundance

Author:Pope Paul VI

“You can ask my wife about my stamina.”

Asks Wife My Wife Stamina

Author:Steve Smith, Sr.

“For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.”

Needs Ends Matter Values Asks Successful Customers Being Successful The End Of The Day What Matters

Author:Eli Broad

“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”

Ifs Feels Trying Littles Hard Body Asks Pay Cutting Policy Needed Behavior Quitting Firm Boards Employee Unfair Unemployment Behalf Dissatisfied

Author:Janet Yellen

“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.”

“You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.”

Knows Asks Love You Favors

Author:Michael Bassey

“It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.”

Believe Doe Important Christian Asks

Book:Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

Men Asks Black White Struggle Calling Racism White Man Black History Month Black Racism Ending Racism White Racism

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.”

People Believe Shows Asks Willing Weakness Vulnerability

Author:Brené Brown

“By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.”

Mean Asks Given Abundance

Book:The Secret Daily Teachings

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”

Looks Asks Taught Findings All Things Photographer Philosopher Layman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.”

Asks Fit Ask Me Freak Standing Out

Book:The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel

Source: The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel

“God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.”

Giving Use Asks

Author:Richard Stearns

“You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.”

Asks Player Position Athlete Pitcher

Author:Curt Schilling

“When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.”

Writing Asks Ask Me Trust Me Don't Trust

Author:Anil Dash

“People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.”

People Ifs Hate Asks I Hate Opponents

Author:Renzo Gracie

“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”

Needs Dream Next Asks Progress Resources Charity Rate Scales Apples Google Next Time Amazon Overhead

Author:Dan Pallotta

“If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.”

Ifs Should Doe Two Soul Asks Primaries Ask Me Two Things

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.”

Mind Has Beens Three Asks Answers Brain India Asking West Philosopher Fascinating Lofty

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.”

Asks Given Thanks

Author:Mariano Rivera

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.”

Asks Answers Rainforest

Author:Mark Plotkin

“The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing.”

Humans Doe Christian Political Asks Church Glory Institutions Court Creator Supreme Defined Supreme Court Flourishing Christian Church Political Institutions

Author:Albert Mohler

“People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.”

People Seems Asks Force Process Enjoy Goal Lines Roles Impossible Genius Projects Crosses Architecture Ask Me Budgets Sheer Wire Fashionable Force Of Will

Author:Curtis W. Fentress

“Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Play Asks Player Harder Honestly Trash It Is What It Is Holding Back Trash Talk

Author:Jason Babin

“I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.”

Ifs World Should Important Would Be Asks Shots Important Things Dry Korean Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Billy Eichner

“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”

Art Artist Asks Grows Taste Obsession Painter Suitable

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.”

People I Can Feelings Asks Company Growing Office Fingers Practicals Pulse Cubicles

Author:Kevin P. Ryan

“I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.”

I Can Two Fighting Asks Months

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.”

Giving Asks Answers Policy Produce Findings Research Combining Right Questions

Author:Richard Layard, Baron Layard

“Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?”

Knows Ends Asks

Book:In the City of Shy Hunters

Source: In the City of Shy Hunters

“The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.”

Humans Doe Self Asks Progress Self Improvement Perfection Strive Improvement Persevere Complacent Despondent

Book:Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America

Source: Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America