#asking

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asking #better #daily #heart #longing

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?' ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#another #answer #asking #deliver #happiness

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#am #asking #extremely #fuss #going

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#additional #adjustment #after #ask #asking

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#asking #keep #prepared #question #somebody

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#ask #asking #changed #cheekbones #compare

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland. ↗

— Bjork

#always #asking #iceland #me #people

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#am #asking #certainly #close #conform

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few