“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist
Source: Winter's Bone
Source: A Northern Light
“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist
Source: Winter's Bone
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). <br class="br">2000s
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
“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
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