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Quotes About Begging

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.
~ Libba Bray
May I have relief-of-pain, please?" he begged. It was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for a mashed finger, a stomach ache, a skinned knee from a fall from a bike.
~ Lois Lowry
Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.
~ Ron Koertge
Those who beg in silence starve in silence
~ Rudyard Kipling
Those who beg in silence starve in silence,' said Kim, quoting a native proverb.
~ Rudyard Kipling
He looked down at her, the wild reckless passion of the artist in his eyes, daring her to tame him, begging her to try.
~ Joey W. Hill
Those who go to aliens with a begging bowl for financial assistance in the pursuit of retaining power in their country, damaging national pride and subject the nation to international ridicule. Such people are criminals.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Those, who go to aliens with a begging bowl for financial assistance in the pursuit of retaining power in their country and damage national pride, and subject the nation to international ridicule. Such people are criminals.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The pleasure of receiving the rank and rise to a deserving person is in bagging it without asking and not getting it by begging.
~ Anuj Somany
Winter is always the hardest period for rough sleepers because of the climate and the post-Christmas dip in generosity towards anyone begging. And there's a genuine risk to life for anyone having to sleep out as temperatures plummet.
~ Dawn Foster
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
~ Dan Harmon
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe
~ Margaret Atwood
And so there was this enigmatic creature in a good likeness. A creature asking for sympathy.
~ Anne Rice
Quinn, the snappy dresser. Quinn, worthy fo be a subject in the Vampire Chronicles. Quinn, dressed for begging to be allowed in.
~ Anne Rice
I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Looks like you're naked." His jaw worked as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I beg your pardon?" "Beg all you want, you're still going to be naked." Tabitha paused at the wicked image in her mind. "Come to think of it, a gorgeous, begging, naked man… that's the stuff of fantasies. Begging won't get you your clothes, but it could get you something else." She wiggled her eyebrows at him.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was plain to me that we couldn't look to the kourts for freedom and justice anymore than we could expect to gain our liberation by participating in the u.s. political system, and it was pure fantasy to think we could gain them by begging. The only alternative left was to fight for them, and we are going to have to fight like any other people who have fought for liberation.
~ Assata Shakur
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~ Mortimer Adler
I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.
~ Caroline Polachek
They both had the same calm and dreamy little cast of mind. They delighted in stories, in old Breton legends, and their favorite sport was to go and ask for them at the cottage-doors, like beggars: Ma'am... or, Kind gentleman... have you a little story to tell us, please? And it seldom happened that they did not have one given them; for nearly every old Breton grandame has, at least once in her life, seen the korrigans dance by moonlight on the heather.
~ Gaston Leroux
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
~ Bob Dylan
Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are some people who delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste.
~ Mario Puzo
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
~ Satish Kumar