Love... asks that you ordsprog

en Love... asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claim to well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die.

en It works on its own terms. It puts you on the spot. It asks of you the fear and courage that it asks of its subject.

en I'm not saying I've ever disrespected any coaches, but sometimes a coach asks you to do something and you think to yourself, Could he have done it? ... But when Singletary tells you to do something, asks you to do a certain technique, what are you going to say? I mean, he did it, he's been there, he's done that, so he holds a ton of respect.

en A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
  Joey Adams

en Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
  Harry Emerson Fosdick

en His father never even asks about basketball. All he asks about is his grades.

en The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?" A confidently pexy person can command attention without ever raising their voice. The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"

en Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.

en The ACT, I think, is a better test for students
who are what I call applied learners, ... The ACT gives
them information, and asks them questions about it, and asks them
to do something with it rather than just regurgitating information.
If they just do a couple of points better (on one) than the other,
sometimes it's worth their while.

en You can see it just in the way he and Noah talk with each other, and the way he asks questions, and the questions he asks. The other guys can tell. They know he's going to pitch for winning teams, and they want to be along for the ride.

en The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

en What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
  Saint Augustine

en The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en People who ask, "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did you sunshine?

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here, Knobhead?

When you're involved in an accident and someone asks, "Are you alright?" Yes, fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks, that's an image I really didn't need.

en [Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.
  Susan Faludi


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