Quotes About Begging

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

LEBEAU: How about some solidarity with Gypsies? Just because they don't work nine to five? WAITER—a small man, middle-aged, still wearing his apron: I know this one. I've made him go away a hundred times. He and his wife stand outside the café with a baby, and they beg. It's not even their baby. LEBEAU: So what? They've still got a little imagination.

Under no circumstances should the brothers receive money when they go out begging, cause it to be received by others, seek it or cause it to be sought, for any house or place. Likewise, they should never go out with any person seeking money or coin for such places.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter's return: a killer smile.

I'd go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you're better than the rabbits we ate last night.

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

No, she wanted me to beg her to do what she wanted to do. Like all women, she wanted me to offer her what she desired. I have been rolled.

St. Philip Neri: Imagine yourselves to be spiritual beggars in the presence of God and his saints. You should go round from saint to saint, imploring an alms with the same real earnestness with which the poor beg.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?' I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?'

Era la peregrinación de los martes, devota, insulsa, mentirosa. Venían a pedir favores. ¿Por qué esta manía de pedir y pedir? Yo no soy de aquí. Me avergüenzo de esta raza limosnera.

Fue el éxito de este curita pedigüeño haberse dejado llevar por su instinto, su espíritu limosnero, con el cual coincidía con lo más natural y consustancial de este país damnificado y mendicante, su vocación de pedir, que viene de lejos: cuando yo nací ya Colombia había perdido la vergüenza.

If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life.

If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life. Afterwards, it was as if some understanding of the world had sunk into Makepeace's soul like winter dew. She knew that she would never feel safe or loved as she had before. And she knew that she would never, ever beg that way again.

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

People in New York go to Calcutta to get some relief from begging

The Grey Lady said I would come begging for her help, and for her help I have come, though whether I shall beg is another matter.

If you beg the Heterodyne nicely, I will grudgingly classify you as one of her minions. Excellent medical benefits! All the pie you want! Free haircuts!