Quotes by Asking I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough. Daniel Dennett good-questions asking people Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange. Daniel Radcliffe strange asking people If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head! Dante Alighieri causes asking forget I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance. Daryl Morey dancer asking philosophy Now that I have confirmed that the Vikings have been seeking to trade me, I have asked for permission to speak to the interested teams. The Vikings have denied my request. If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible. Daunte Culpepper trade-me team asking We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late Dave Eggers car done asking Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense! David Brin fine make-sense asking Simply asking the British people to carry on accepting a European settlement over which they have had little choice is a path to ensuring that when the question is finally put - and at some stage it will have to be - it is much more likely that the British people will reject the EU. David Cameron choices asking people Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band David Crosby band music asking I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '... and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'. David E. Cooper ambition asking thinking The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around. David Graeber population asking people Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?" David Kaufman glasses half asking We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves. David L. Ulin asking waiting book Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. David Mitchell mirrors asking trying You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late. David Shore asking too-late people I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you! David Platt encouraging asking blood I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it. David Sedaris halloween asking people I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships. Davy Rothbart email asking advice There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking. Debbi Fields asking want people aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to. David Levithan asking school thinking «4567891011121314»
