#asking

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#goodness #hear #humans #people #please

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. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#go #help #help people #i #into

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#asking #dollars #millions #millions of dollars #sell

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#asking #authority #budget #director #effective

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#asking #back #been #comics #done

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#access #actor #actually #another #asking

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#asking #basketball #both #couple #done

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#away #back #could #from time to time #give