Quotes About Pleading

Modern television evangelists are mostly ignorant men with closed minds who have glimpsed the incredible reach of television – even its political influence – and spend a sizable part of their air time pleading for money.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Mommy. I'm not joking, I'm not kidding, and I'm not playing. I need chocolate.

Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

Not fair let me see your anal gland pretty please with a cherry on top!

Ich fürchtete das Schlimmste, nicht, weil ich den Plan der Griechen Zug um Zug durchschaute, sondern weil ich den haltlosen Übermut der Troer sah. Ich schrie, bat, beschwor und redete in Zungen.

Feb. 1, 1965 Storm late at night, heavy rain, a thunderous racket, the windows shaking. I heard my name called. A woman's voice in hell pleading with me to join her.

another wildly gesturing to her comatose baby and pleading for help

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Now the movie stars beg people to follow their Zing feeds. They send pleading messages asking everyone to smile at them. And holy fuck, the mailing lists! Everyone's a junk mailer. You know how I spend an hour every day? Thinking of ways to unsubscribe to mailing lists without hurting anyone's feelings. There's this new neediness—it pervades everything.

I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, It's a beautiful day. Why don't you go play outside? In this case, I feel like pleading, It's a completely spooky night. Forget the loud music--come outside and have a blood sacrifice or something! There's a full moon! (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife.

She backed up against a brick wall. Tears sliding down her face, she moaned, "Please, please don't hurt me. I swear I won't tell nobody what you done. I swear to God. Please." Rogers bent down and picked

Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you As for my patron, stand you so assured, As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful words Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir. O this learning, what a thing it is!

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

Here, Clare, Clare, Clare . . . Come to Papa!

She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now.

Don't tell me no this time, Aura. Please. Don't make me stop.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.

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

I wandered past Vic's office and looked in at the explosion of legal pads. The display was daunting, and I would be cursed at if I messed up any of what I'm sure was a carefully detailed arrangement. We were little but we were mighty. I thought of Don Quixote, being far too powerful to war with mere mortals and pleading for giants. I

I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.