“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”

— Jennifer Donnelly , A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

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American writer 1963

Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist

Source: Winter's Bone

“It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.”

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist

Dijkstra (2000), "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF (EWD 1305).
2000s

“Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120

“You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Kartography

“If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.”

Stephan Pastis (1968) American cartoonist

“As you know I have always been more afraid of a peace offer than of an air raid.”

Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Letter to Ida Chamberlain (8 October 1939), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy. 1933-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 355.
Prime Minister

“Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.”

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

“Having the ability to always communicate to others what you think, means offering them a true opportunity to trust.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Avere la capacità di comunicare sempre agli altri ciò che si pensa, significa offrire loro una vera opportunità di fiducia.
Source: prevale.net

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