Ask Not Have Not Bible Verse Quotes & Sayings

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? — William Shakespeare

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale. — Richard Louv

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life. — Lou Holtz

Time is the very lens through which ye see
small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope
something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality. — C.S. Lewis

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things ... — Maya Angelou

I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me. — Benjamin Clementine

I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain. — Maggie Young

One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it. — T.F. Hodge

No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life. — Oscar Wilde

THERE IS LITTLE that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time. — Lauren Groff

Prince Felipe is the best ambassador for Spain: I have already told Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, minister of foreign affairs, that the prince should travel to the U.S. more often. — James Costos

Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles. — Stuart MacBride

A forced smile is uglier than a frown. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The unveiled Algerian woman, who assumed an increasingly important place in revolutionary action, developed her personality, discovered the exalting realm of responsibility. The freedom of the Algerian people from then on became identified with woman's liberation, with her entry into history. This woman who, in the avenues of Algier or of Constantine, would carry the grenades or the submachine-gun chargers, this woman who tomorrow would be outraged, violated, tortured, could not put herself back into her former state of mind and relive her behaviour of the past; this woman who was writing the heroic pages of Algerian history was, in so doing, bursting the bounds of the narrow in which she had lived without responsibility, and was at the same time participating in the destruction of colonialism and in the birth of a new woman. — Frantz Fanon

The God's been walking through our halls again: Brothers have been having visions. What's Vartra been saying to you? — Lisanne Norman

I've thought about it properly, this whole praying thing, I mean really thought about it, and what I think is that maybe people are doing it wrong; that instead of asking God nicely, people should be demanding and questioning and threatening to stop worshipping. Maybe that way, he would think differently and try to make things right, like he is supposed to; even that verse in the Bible says ask for anything and you shall receive and, I mean, whose words are those? — NoViolet Bulawayo

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme. — Joseph Addison