Asking Quotes

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.