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Quotes About Pleading

Mary Ellen finally gave in to Breanna's pleading, and they bought the latest style in swimwear. Not the kind with stockings and skirts, but the one-piece with the legs halfway up the thighs. She definitely would not wear hers.
~ Yvonne Lehman
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
~ zafon carlos ruiz v
Fighting through darkness and despair and pleading for the light is what opened this dispensation. It is what keeps it going, and it is what will keep you going.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Olifur licked his lips and gave a small croak. "Please, sir." His voice came out in a thin, wavering stream. "May I have some more?
~ Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
Dígame si tengo que ponerme de rodillas para conmoverle el corazón.
~ Émile Zola
Come in! come in !' he sobbed. 'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!
~ Emily Bronte
Foreplead (v.) To ask too much in pleading. You are pleading when you ask for your job back; you are forepleading when you ask for a raise to go with it. Fornale
~ Ammon Shea
God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
~ Larry Niven
I want the drumstick! I want the drumstick!
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die..
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.
~ zweig stefan iv
Hijo de David, ten compasión de nosotros.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
There is no condition that a godly man or woman can be in, but there is some promise or other in the Scripture to help him in that condition. And that is the way of his contentment, to go to the promises, and get from the promise, that which may supply. This is but a dry business to a carnal heart; but it is the most real thing in the world to a gracious heart: when he finds lack of contentment he repairs to the promise, and the Covenant, and falls to pleading the promises that God has made.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
~ Kaspar Hauser
I would love to play Hansaa again if somebody offers me that role. In fact, I have been pleading with the producers of 'Khichdi' to bring that show back.
~ Supriya Pathak
young Icelandic woman had tweeted at a member of the Brotherhood, pleading with him not to appropriate a symbol that had nothing whatsoever to do with white supremacy. His response had been to call her a n*****-loving cunt.
~ Robert Galbraith
Mommy?" I plead. "Please?" "No," she pouts. "I'm nine!" "Please," I say and start to sob, my chest heaving its burden up and down. "I'm nine!" "Please be thirty-four!
~ Linda Gray Sexton
Riditemelo, Bartleboom. Proprio con quel tono lì, vi prego. Riditemelo.
~ Alessandro Baricco
No wonder Nolan whines like a pro: He has a good teacher. The fact is, parents who spend a lot of time pleading with their children develop kids who are experts at pleading
~ Jim Fay
My dear sir,' said Emily, timidly, 'what mean those tears?'—they speak, I fear, another language—they plead for me.
~ Ann Radcliffe
What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don't you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn't bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: 'What do you think you're waiting for? You've been in Hell for a long time already.
~ Anna Seghers
Piangi con me, supplica il padre di non uccidere tua sorella: anche i bambini si rendono conto delle sciagure.
~ Euripides
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
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
~ Frederick Pollock