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Quotes About Entreaty

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
~ John Oliver
Wanna waterdrink, Rollo firstee," he pleaded.
~ Brian Jacques
Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn't know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots.
~ Kate Mosse
All I'm asking for is what I want.
~ Rickey Henderson
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
~ Maureen Johnson
pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!
~ Gena Showalter
It's pretty clear: If you don't ask, you usually don't get what you deserve.
~ Suze Orman
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
No matter what it was or is," I said, "you have the right to make a request. You don't have to endure, as you say, 'the shivers.
~ Catherine Gildiner
importunity
~ James Allen
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson
~ Matt Groening
Now you owe me another one, Lord Yasha.
~ CLAMP
It is perfectly acceptable to remind the universe the reason She was created. And if any of the gods or goddesses toy with thee, it is perfectly acceptable for you to toy with them! Threaten to destroy or burn their effigies, their sacred books, statues, altars, and so forth, if they ignore your since entreaties.
~ Laurence Galian
It is perfectly acceptable to remind the universe the reason She was created. And if any of the gods or goddesses toy with thee, it is perfectly acceptable for you to toy with them! Threaten to destroy or burn their effigies, their sacred books, statues, altars, and so forth, if they ignore your sincere entreaties.
~ Laurence Galian
He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth.
~ Charles Dickens
nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning
~ Thomas Paine
Do come now, said he..., pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come.
~ Jane Austen
As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind. Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford
~ Jane Austen
Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better angels of our nature.' Everyone in Congress - and, by extension, the nation - has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere.
~ Miranda Devine
I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me.
~ China Meiville
There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every turn of her lips, her eyes, her hand as she said it! There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him and tenderness--soft, timid tenderness--and promise and hope and love for him, which he could not but believe in and which choked him with happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Can I have some fish-bait?' I asked.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.
~ Chuck Daly