Request Quotes
307 quotes by 280 authors
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Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their…
— Richard J. Foster
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The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request,…
— Colin Jordan
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I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but…
— Rasmus Lerdorf
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I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the…
— Chelsea Manning
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How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
— Alistair Begg
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One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably…
— Peter Baker
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By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states…
— Hans Blix
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Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget…
— Christopher Bond
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The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too.…
— Susanna Kaysen
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When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to…
— George Barna
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The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either…
— Ole Hallesby
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My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not
— Dalai Lama
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To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for…
— John Owen
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
— John Calvin
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If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to…
— Erich Fromm
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Our requests are necessary expressly to strengthen our faith, through which alone we can be saved. 'By grace are we saved through faith' (Eph. 2:8).…
— John of Kronstadt
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... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of…
— John Cassian
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