Request Quotes
307 quotes by 280 authors
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What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for…
— Christopher Paolini
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So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not…
— William H. Gass
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If you’re not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God’s best…
— Joel Osteen
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil…
— Truman Capote
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Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit…
— Janette Rallison
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Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe…
— Douglas Coupland
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Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask…
— Swami Satchidananda
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
— Victor Borge
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Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?
— Simone Elkeles
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Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing.…
— Ann Patchett
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from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn…
— Martin Luther
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
— David Foster Wallace
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There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy.…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Request Quotes
280 authors contributed a total of 307 Request Quotes, led by these top contributors: