#ask

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#answer #asked #avoid #borrowed #could

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#address #ask #children #consequences #discuss

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#anybody #anything #ask #care #clear

All we are asked to bear we can bear. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#bear

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. ↗

— John Gould

#failures #fix #latent #system #trouble

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#anything #asking #commodity #five #give

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#attempt #case #confidence #difficult #dismayed

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#ask #bad #big #big city #city

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#generation #hear #peers #repeat #sometimes

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#directions #driver #new #person #refuses