“The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?” FirstsKindRealMightAsksVoiceSilenceBrokenImpulseSilence IsTunnelsBreaking SilenceBeing Broken Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.” IfsThinkingKindAbleDesireAsksNamesPrayerHeardPrayingSooner Or LaterAssurance Author:James Ussher
“We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingKindMayDoeBookBeautifulAsksWhiteAnswersSecretFemaleHotAll KindsImpressFeathersScientismPeacock Author:Vaclav Havel
“A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks.” KindLittlesAsksAttentionDogNow And ThenKind Words Author:Louis Sabin
“I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?” ThinkingNeedsKindAsksMilitarySeriousBasesJustifyEngagement Author:Albert Wynn
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.” KindEnoughSchoolYoungAsksSummerDaughterGoldMathematicsSellsBraveSevenGrandmotherPoetry IsMy DaughterHoneyMy GrandmotherFleasYoung And OldFlea Markets Author:J. Ruth Gendler
“If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?” IfsKindSelfBodyAsksDangerousDependsHealthyGainsPainfulSelf ConfidenceOperationsExpensiveBreastsImplantsHealthy BodyBreast Implants Author:Katha Pollitt
“My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"” KindDifferentEarthAsksTalkingPhonesListsAsk MeMy Best FriendMadisonTranslatorsSlang Author:Emma Watson
“I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.” PeopleWayWantKindCareLastsHateAsksMiddleBoringOne WayBe KindSugarBowlsPuddingVanilla Author:Andy Biersack
“People ask me who my favorite inker is and I tell them my favorite inker was Joe Sinnott...but I was the best. Now I don't mean that as any kind of egotistical thing. It's just that I did what Jack wanted.” PeopleKindMeanWantedAsksMy FavoriteAsk MeEgotistical Author:Mike Royer