Pleading Quotes

85 quotes by 83 authors

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my… — Linda Grant
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. — Oliver Goldsmith
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. — Emily Dickinson
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it… — James McGreevey
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there… — Voltaire
Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured… — Sheri L. Dew
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate… — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond… — William Shakespeare
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that… — Thomas S. Monson
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what… — Jeffrey R. Holland
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of… — Jack London
I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! — Jay Asher
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers canâ€™t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind… — Jim C. Hines

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