“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.” PeopleNeedsGivingTodayGreaterPleaseAreasGive MeAskingCongressCaringTrialsIdiotSensitiveAgencyBureaucracyNew Orleans Author:Aaron Broussard
“I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.” IfsGivingYearsBigsAbleRememberPrayerFeetBedGive MeAskingNineNine YearsOld SayingKneelingAsking God Author:Katy Perry
“There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingAbleWishPaintingPleaseGive MeAsking Author:Norbert Bisky
“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.” IfsGivingWritingYearsStillsTwoFiveGive MeAskingDuesFive YearsMore TimeComposerSymphonyTwo Days Author:Darren Criss
“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFeelingsRunningLostLanguageCryDepressionMy FriendsMy FamilyGive MeAskingIllnessCaringMental IllnessTerritoryInvitationsFacilityForeignersNoticingFaking ItNew Territory Author:Martha Manning
“Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.” GivingLooksImportantBeautifulChanceGive MeAskingPotKettlesGive Me A ChanceTinkerbell Author:Tink
“I put everything in God's hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired.” GivingHelpingHandsCareStrongUnderstandingOne DayMy FamilyGive MeAskingInspiredTake CareHelp MeGive Me Strength Author:Aaron Watson
“In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.” ThinkingWayGivingShouldFirstsChildrenCountryHelpingSchoolFoundLeftGrowsParentNaturalPayBehindsSupportGrowing UpGive MeAskingRaisesRaisedMumTribesLeft Behind Author:Alek Wek
“Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.” GivingLooksPrayerDivineCommunicationTypeGive MeAskingCosmicBellsQuantumCaptainsAsking God Author:John Assaraf
“Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.” WantGivingFeelsSaidWantedLove YouKissingGive MeAskingCaughtWhat You WantRanBuyingBusAuntAnd Off Author:Avi
“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.” WantGivingHeartHandsMy HeartHolyLet MeGive MeAskingReceiving Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.” GivingMeanGive MeAskingQuittingIndigestion Book:Cry Wolf Source: Cry Wolf
“~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~” ThinkingWantGivingKidsParentCompassionMomGive MeAskingParentingPlanesFinding YourselfWant MeYou Want MeDo You Want Me Author:Mariska Hargitay
“I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them in the division lobby. But when it comes to marriage, they are asking me to stand apart and to join a separate queue. I ask my colleagues, if I am equal in this house, to give me every opportunity to be equal.” IfsGivingAsksOpportunityHouseRoomsGayEqualGive MeAskingBarsTeaDivisionCommitteesColleaguesGay MarriageQueues Author:Mike Freer