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Quotes About Begging

Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.
~ Kathy Acker
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.
~ John G. Lake
A still-soliciting eye.
~ William Shakespeare
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
~ William Shakespeare
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
~ x malcolm vi
Connor, if ye doona kill this fledgling, I will. The lad is begging for it." -Angus McKay about Gregori Holstein
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Accept this: your mortal is doomed. Please, Aric. I'm begging you! He whirled around, fury in his expression. You refused - twice - to beg me for your own life, but you'd beg for his? I whispered, Yes.
~ Kresley Cole
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.
~ Jennifer Egan
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
~ Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
~ Anatole France
When I came out of college, I wasn't much of a weight room juggernaut. I was drafted in the 10th round out of the University of Idaho after literally begging teams to work me out.
~ Mark Schlereth
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."
~ Rita Rudner
I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
First you're indebted and then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
First you borrow. Then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Primero pides prestado; luego pides limosna.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.
~ GloZell
I don't like begging money from producers.
~ David Byrne
How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon.
~ Roger Robinson