“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.” YearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoSelfStatesBigsPastAsksIndividualGoalInterestConsciousnessChristianitySacrificeCenturyHigherThousandConflictEnlightenmentDirectOkayOrganizationAskingCommunismCooperationThousand YearsSelf InterestOffspringHuman ConsciousnessHigher Goals Author:David Gerrold
“Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.” YearsWellsRealShowsSocialOkayAskingSevenPhonesCellsSatireSeven YearsReal ThingsCell PhoneThings I Love Author:Debra Messing
“What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.” KnowsHomeKidsGrowsGrowing UpPrayingPleaseWasteOkayAskingDearNursePilotsPreacherAirlineSurgeonsTransSchooledDear GodUltrasoundsAirline Pilots Author:Randi Rhodes
“I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.” IfsWayWritingBelieveMeanCharacterStoriesI BelieveInterestingSituationHellMagicMajorsWeakOkayMarkAskingPlotExaminingInteresting Situations Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're asking me something that I've never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, "Really? It's Natasha. Okay?" Like I've never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.” IfsGivingLooksRealNamesHeardOkayAskingDirtyCombatBeing RealHostilePremisesStarbucksNatasha Author:Natasha Lyonne
“You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.” IfsThinkingWantDifferentSocialInformationOkayAskingFollowingSocial NetworkJust SayingUpdates Author:Biz Stone
“I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is healthy, what they know is good for them, what they know is good for the work that they need to do, what they know is good for their bodies, what they know is good for their families - all too often ending that statement with the upturned question mark: "If it's okay with everyone?" Still asking, still requesting, still filing petitions for somebody to say that it's all right.” IfsKnowsNeedsStillsBodyStruggleHealthyOkayMarkAskingStatementsPetitionsFilingQuestion Mark Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“What about Gale?" "He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly. "And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?" He asks. "No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him. Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?” WellsAsksLaughingPiecesKissingOkayAskingPermissionPeetaGale Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad—" Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. "I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?" Oh . . . yes. Good point.” YearsWellsLongIdeasMightFightingGamesRealizingRoomsTalkingSubjectsCryStrangeSonFinePrayingDadBattleSixHundredOkayAskingSurpriseMy DadExpectedSavedDestroyedMy SonPalacesPeanutsTysonPeanut ButterOlympusBattle CryRemodeling Author:Rick Riordan
“But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.” ThinkingGivingPersonsOkayHarderAskingApologyInjuredAsking For Forgiveness Book:The Story of Us Source: The Story of Us