Petitions Quotes
94 quotes by 83 authors
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are…
— Bob Beauprez
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I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell…
— Jo Brand
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at…
— Herb Caen
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but…
— Aldous Huxley
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Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…
— C.S. Lewis
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
— Watchman Nee
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to…
— William Cowper
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The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition…
— Trey Gowdy
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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was…
— Abraham Lincoln
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O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails…
— Alfred Nobel
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If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea…
— Edward Condon
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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does…
— Edward Condon
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without…
— Bridget of Sweden
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Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.
— Jani Allan
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It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces…
— Angela of Foligno
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