Asker Quotes & Sayings

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. — Sam Keen

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving. — Gautama Buddha

And where's my ring?

She laughs, drops her fists in her lap. 'Your Ring? Where's my ring? And why aren't you down on one knee?'

Because I'm driving and because you're the one who asked me. Everybody knows the asker supplies the jewelry.

'Everybody knows? You made that up- how would everybody know? The guy always buys the ring.'

Moneys tight. How about Junior Mints and a Coke instead?

'Deal,' she says. — Jessica Martinez

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker. — Jennifer Lawrence

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head.
(to a Liverpool trainee) — Bill Shankly

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain. — Conrad Aiken

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful. — Solomon Ortiz

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. — Jaggi Vasudev

understand that it is the asking that matters, not the answer. Because every real asking, every real meeting comes from the place where the Buddha glimmers in the depths. In the asking is the answerer; in the answer is the asker. And in the meeting of the two, there are mountains, rivers, and the whole earth. — Florence Caplow

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?" — Jay Duplass

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it. — Sheldon Vanauken

People didn't change when asked by others, no matter how important the asker was. True change had to come entirely from within. — Elise Kova