#asking

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

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! ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#asked #asking #borrowed #break #city

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. ↗

— Edward Grey

#ask #asking #austria #austrian #been

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. ↗

— Peter Hook

#back #expect #festivals #get #i

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#better #forgiveness #his #man #reversing

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#autographs #bothers #coming #eating #i

Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that. ↗

— John Anderson

#any #asking #i #i think #know

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ↗

— Mary Astor

#asking questions #gone #innocence #once #questions

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know? ↗

— Candace Cameron

#am #asking #enough #everyone #go