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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne
Religion
Me
You
Age
Once
Consolation
Find
Only
Pray
Pray For
Ask
Us
We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'
Paul Hawken
Lie
World
Sugar
Ourselves
Kind
Executive
Juice
Infants
Artificial
Where
Substitutes
Ask
Created
Businesses
Even
Apple
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
Paul Mooney
Today
Time
Best
Me
People
Say
Best Time
Always
Ask
We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy are often actually lower than those paid by the rest of us.
Pete Buttigieg
Financial
Rest
Consider
Appropriate
Top
Those
Wealthy
Rates
Given
Effective
Than
Often
Transactions
Tax
Whether
Tax Rates
Ask
Us
Really
Lower
Paid
Actually
Marginal
Need
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
Peter McWilliams
You
People
Before
Worst
Give
Learn
Were
Precisely
Where
Want
Which
Ask
Asked
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
Peter Sellers
Myself
Me
You
Will
Know
Am
Ask
Who
Play
The most you get is what you ask for.
Phil McGraw
You
Most
Get
Ask
But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Philip Gibbs
Love
War
You
Hate
Sorry
France
Shall
Glad
Put
Do You Know
Know
Because
Germans
Die
Ask
Us
Who
Why
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
Rem Koolhaas
Work
Needs
Ways
Respond
Architects
Demands
Look
Another
Client
Precisely
Ask
Two
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.
Rene Girard
People
Other
Our
Tell
Would
Something
Feel
Come
Like
Know
Always
Selves
Did
Personal
Lack
Ask
Us
Depths
Even
Deepest
Desire
Desires
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek
You
Someone
Refusing
Ask
Help
Helpful
Chance
Need
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
Richard Wagner
Good
Change
Good Things
Shall
Never
Know
Masses
Also
Permanent
Refuge
Anything
Transform
Place
Ask
Even
Things
Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'
Robert Mueller
Saying
World
Pride
Immense
Someone
Feel
Go
Ask
Us
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
Problem
Alien
States
Indian
Always
Been
Any
Ask
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
United
United States
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
Robin DiAngelo
Racism
People
White
Ourselves
Shaped
Forces
How
Were
Question
Ask
Need
Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.
Roddy Piper
Me
You
Back
Tell
Give
Off
Shirt
Ask
Chance
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Ronald Graham
You
Somewhere
Down
Correct
Would
Would-Be
Able
Proof
Could
Computer
Hypothesis
True
Understand
Said
Line
Discouraging
Yes
Very
Ask
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.
Rose Kennedy
God
Family
You
Son
Sometimes
Envy
President
About
Something
Son-In-Law
Had
Invites
Perhaps
Know
Permit
Ambassador
Wonder
Senators
Which
Ask
Much
Violence
Two
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
Salman Rushdie
Myself
Great
History
World
Events
Think
Our
Our Lives
Tried
Shape
Shaped
Make
Masters
Does
Always
Passive
Question
Just
Whether
Victims
Agency
Ask
Us
Asking
Lives
My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
Sam Richards
Me
Way
Tell
See
Shaped
Students
Study
Often
Human
Human Beings
Which
Them
Ask
Beings
Things
Sociology
If I could leave anybody with anything, it's this - if you need help, ask for it.
Scott Hall
You
Could
Leave
Anybody
Anything
Ask
If I Could
Help
Need
Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
Shannen Doherty
World
Second Chance
Everybody
Ask
Deserves
Second
Basically
Chance
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
Shirley Jackson
Best
Me
Job
Too
Give
Give Me
Cleaned
Never
Proud
Western
Person
Handout
Manager
Wanted
Ask
Worker
Who
Homes
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
Sojourner Truth
Secretly
Hungry
Rather
Only
Take
Liked
Knows
How
Lord
How Many Times
Go
Times
Than
Children
Bread
Ask
Many
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
Sonny Liston
Sun
Look
Dumb
Shining
Questions
Up
Ask
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs
Will
Our
Able
Fact
Take
Computers
Conditions
Going
Happen
After
Inform
Ask
Us
Certain
Actions
Things
Monitor
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