#asking

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#asking #bad #different #final #final analysis

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. ↗

— Joan Blades

#censure #clinton #congress #family #friends

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist. ↗

— Linda Blair

#asking #because #been #exorcist #i

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#any #approaching #asking #autograph #comes

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#am #asking #certainly #close #conform

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

— Orlando Bloom

#did #girl #guess #her #i

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#easy #family #give #home #newborn