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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.


Charlotte Whitton

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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA We never reflect on how pleasant it is to ask for nothing
SENECA To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! / How pleasant it is to have money.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
BIBLE Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
BIBLE Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
BIBLE Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
BALTASAR GRACIAN To some degree it is a judgment call on how much we can ask for. To me, ($1 billion) is insane. That...
DONNY LAMBETH Charlotte: So how are you?
Carrie: I'm good. How are you?
Charlotte: Great.
Carrie: I to...
SEX AND THE CITY Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity. Psalms 133:1
BIBLE If you can't find something pleasant to say about someone, then say nothing at all
PROVERB It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
JOHN BARTH It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him
JOHN BARTH Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON When one must, one can.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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CHARLOTTE WHITTON Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is ...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smar...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is no...
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CHARLOTTE WHITTON Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnifi...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men’s wives.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Action makes more fortune than caution.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle poin...
MEG CABOT I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our ...
KENTETSU TAKAMORI They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But t...
KAMILA SHAMSIE But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the...
CHARLES DICKENS We never, contrary to what you may have heard, say, 'Take this out, take that out. If they ask as or...
JOAN GRAVES I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and so...
LEMONY SNICKET I think our philosophy is if we don't ask for what we're worth, we'll never get it.
RUTH WILLIAMS Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.
LEMONY SNICKET We need to ask for what we think it right and I think it is right to ask for legalization.
GLORIA HERNANDEZ The score doesn't reflect how bad we shot.
LES POORE The score doesn't reflect how well we played.
JOE GALLEGOS But the sound of despair is never pleasant; it sounds suspiciously like lying.
JOSEPH ROTH How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
ALBANIAN PROVERB If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING They had nothing to ask, because we had it all covered. We did our homework.
DENNIS LATTA I would bet Charlotte -- but I've been saying Charlotte for a year now!.
ALAN BENDER Never ask ‘How’ in love & ‘Why’ in failure.
ROYALTON AMBROSE The hot-spot location for industry is from Atlanta to Charlotte.
BOB EVANS To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punch...
ANNE URSU He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL ...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
ANN VOSKAMP The Atlanta ordinance says this is how Atlanta is solving Atlanta's homeless problem. You're not alo...
MICHAEL STOOPS There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is s...
POPPY MONTGOMERY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Anytime we can beat Charlotte we feel pretty good about it.
DARRELL ROACH And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God... mu...
LUCIEN LACROIX Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never ...
JOHN BALDWIN BUCKSTONE Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If they ask me any question about any contraceptive, I can tell them what it does, how it works, but...
SUE JOHANSON To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER We are thrilled to be a part of this terrific opportunity for Charlotte; we look forward to working ...
JEFF BEAVER Hi, Mrs. Collier. I'm a Jew now. How are you? [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY Each of us is getting an auspicious chance to reflect personally on why we are here and how we will ...
AMY MCTEAR [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
REX STOUT The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing...
THOMAS à KEMPIS I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
ADELAIDE PROCTER I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consc...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
DANIEL WOODRELL In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no ...
ERNESTO QUIñONEZ How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' '...
E.B. WHITE It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
LOGAN P. SMITH How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH That's what we're hoping to do. We're hoping they enjoy Port Charlotte and Charlotte County, and tha...
JAMES GAMBLE It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being s...
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let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's t...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, w...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ...
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So now it’s this thing I do.
I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,
to new pla...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminin...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë