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«Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.»
Author: Erica Jong | About: Advice, Irony, Wishes | Keywords: advice, ask for
«If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both»
Author: Horace Mann | Keywords: ask for
«Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.»
«Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.»
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«Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation»
«As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon»
Author: Russian Proverb | Keywords: ask for, shines
«God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.»
«A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.»
«Dear Lord: The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done.»
«I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits»

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