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Quotes About Entreaty

Esta oración se podría considerar como el fundamento de donde se forman todas las demás peticiones.
~ Dave Earley
We demand admission!
~ Douglas Adams
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
~ Walter Martin
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I do not ask you much:I beg cold comfort.
~ William Shakespeare
She was so lazy she would order Zoe to pick her nose for her, though of course Zoe always said 'no'. Sheila could even let out a groan while changing channels with the TV remote.
~ David Walliams
Artemis let her head fall back, her eyes closed, her lips suddenly trembling. Apollo dying. "Please. Please, Maximus. I'll refrain from provoking you anymore. I'll stay in the shadows with my stockings and shoes on and never swim in your pond again, never disturb you again, only please do this one thing, I beg you. Save my brother.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
A question is not a supplication, an entreaty, nor a velleity for knowledge just put out in the air; it is already an order, a command. (Beggars, the destitute, pupils, factory workers, enlisted soldiers, prisoners, and patients have no right to question; they can only entreat.?) A question commands a certain focus of attention, a selection of resources on hand, a certain type of language. It lays down a direction; it imposes a directive to think further down a certain track.
~ Alphonso Lingis
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
So, yield to His entreaty. Give in to His love and, please, please say to the Savior, "Just hold me. Tighter.
~ Don H. Staheli
Ojalá cobraran voz mis brazos, y mis manos, y mi pelo, y mis pies, por el arte de Dédalo o de algún dios, para agarrarse todos de tus rodillas, conjurándote con llanto y con palabras de todas las clases.
~ Euripides
and she asked to be released.
~ Lois Lowry
Wullie, Wullie, to me" he cried.
~ Alfred Ollivant
one man humbly asked to be given a proper burial
~ Anthony Everitt
In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.
~ Sappho
That is beautiful mysticism, it is a—" "Please not to call it by any name," said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. "You will say it is Persian, or something geographical. It is my life. I have found it out and cannot part with it.
~ George Eliot
That is a beautiful mysticism - it is a - ' 'Please not to call it by any name,' said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. 'You will say it is Persian, or something else geographical. It is my life. I have found it out, and cannot part with it.
~ George Eliot
Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face, and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread being with whom they were face to face, while the two voices — the one thin and clear, the other deep and harsh — united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
O break my Bonds, let Sin enthrall My struggling Soul no more; Hear thy fall'n Creature's feeble Call, Thine Image O restore! And tho' my Heart senseless and hard To Thee can scarcely groan, Yet O remember, gracious Lord, Thou once didst write in Stone!
~ John Wesley
She was crying, with wild entreaty, the way one vomits.
~ Georges Bataille
Amongst the deported are many Catholics. Would it not be possible that Your Holiness make another attempt to intercede for these unhappy innocents? Your intervention represents the last hope of so many and the fervent entreaty of all decent men.
~ Gitta Sereny
She wants him to stay. She wants to be persuaded.
~ Mary Balogh
Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart.
~ Mary Shelley
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want, he said. Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison.
~ Maureen Johnson