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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. (Pierre Bourdieu)
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am. View quote
Peter Sellers
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. View quote
John Cage
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. View quote
Norman Mailer
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. View quote
Anne Rice
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. View quote
Ronald Fisher
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. (P. L. Travers)
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. View quote
Gloria Steinem
People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. View quote
Emo Philips
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. View quote
Edith Wharton
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? View quote
Don Marquis
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. View quote
George Burns
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. (Yogi Berra)
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. View quote
Anthony Robbins
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. View quote
Boris Pasternak
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. View quote
David Hilbert
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
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