For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.