"What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away."
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"The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask."
"Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you."
"Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution."
"Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it."
"I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4"
"All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?"
"One reads in order to ask questions"
"I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions."
"Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies."
"Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels."
"I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."
"After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?"
"But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them."
"When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants."
"Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer."
"If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment."
"Never assume you understand. Ask the questions."
"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."
"If you have to ask, you'll never know."