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Quotes About Plead

If, he said, Richard wanted to plead guilty, so be it. However, he pointed out to Richard that an insanity plea might be the way to go. Richard didn't like that idea and shot it right down; he was not, he said, insane. He was different, and he followed the dictates of his own mind and desires, rather than a hypocritically dogmatic society's, he said.
~ Philip Carlo
May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
~ Jonathan Lethem
Since I hear you are leaving, I have come to put certain matters before you. They are important. If I were a different manner of person, no doubt I should do more than this; I should plead, and I should cajole. I mean you to understand that if I cannot do that, it is not because I don't think them worthy. I wish you to listen to them and I will accept the answer you give me. I should only warn you, Francis, that on these matters, I will not brook lightness or insolence.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
From all physical and behavioral evidence, the most likely scenario would have the lone offender quickly rising from the toilet, pulling up his trousers, and going immediately to the woman and confronting her with his knife. With reference to the element of surprise and victimology displayed at countless scenes of violence, we would expect the victim to plead with the UNSUB to take what he wants and leave her unhurt. This would be true whether the victim knows the UNSUB or not.
~ Douglas Preston
We should plead not guilty by reason of inanity…
~ Ralph Caplan
Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.
~ Randy Pausch
melodramatic, I agree, but I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance)
~ Julian Barnes
If you don't ask, you don't get it
~ Mahatma Gandhi
First you burrow. Then you beg.
~ Earnest Hemingway
Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.
~ Hillary Clinton
I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.
~ Katharine Gun
I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
~ Nellie Bly
He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.
~ Jeanine Cummins
She points the phone back to her own face. 'So can we be finished now, yes? Or should we keep on killing people?' Javier unleashes a noise that's half sob and half laughter. He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Yes. His gaze grew distant. If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of... Of losing her?
~ Kristen Britain
You can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iii
O thy sweet tongue must plead for me
~ Emily Bronte
Finger me?" he begged, breathlessly. "A little spit, a little poke-e-ta poke-e-ta? Please?
~ Amy Lane
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
~ Guy Standing
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The Host and the Chalice upon the alter plead before God on our behalf just as our Lord sacrificed on the Cross pleaded for us on Good Friday because it is identically the same sacrifice which is renewed on our alters in an unbloody manner.
~ Angelus Press
I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.
~ Lee Child
If we look at society today, if we look at the challenge of a country becoming more godless by the week, if we look at laws being passed that mock any form of morality — ?instead of lamenting and protesting, wouldn't it be better for us to plead with God to visit his people?
~ Jim Cymbala
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald