Ask Quotes

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?