At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“I'll wait for you, Rosie, I swear it. I'm in it for the long haul. I want all your tomorrows. Every single… — Katie Holt Copy Share Image
My arm was extended upward pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers. When my hand came down, it fell slowly… — Zebulon Baird Vance Copy Share Image
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“She tried to pull away, but Jacks held tight, knotting her hair in his fist and keeping his forehead pressed to hers.… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
“We're going to be alright,' she lied. 'We're going to go home, where Syrinx is waiting for us. We're going to go… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
You know what I'm thinking?' Maggie said. I had no idea. 'Nope,' David replied. Apparently David didn't know either. Maggie turned to… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
“Nesta stretched out her legs, leaning her bruised palms on the stone. 'Enjoy your exercises.' Cassian bristled. But he held out his… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Please,' she says, her head bent. 'Please. You must try to break the curse. I know that you are the queen by… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“When the eternal God looked at my record and said, “Michael is found guilty, the penalty of his crimes is death and… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Don't resent me when I've only just gotten you, please, for I am what makes this world beautiful.” — Adalyn Grace Copy Share Image
“It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“God himself is pleading through us for people to be reconciled to him, if we prepare our body for him” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans… — Tim Huelskamp Copy Share Image
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried. — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“I suddenly realized that if we are sitting around waiting — maybe even begging and pleading — for our circumstances to change… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“Please, good sir- Feyre is my youngest. I beseech you to spare her. She is all... she is all...' But whatever he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't know is close enough to I wasn't listening,I don't care is close enough to I don't want to know, and… — Selena Carmona Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image