Quotes About Request

We must be willing to give advice but only when it is requested and never in a condescending manner.

You don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. —James 4:2

Nay, Sir, not of love," said he, "but a tale shall I relate as best I can, with hearty good will. I shall not disobey your request. Excuse me if I speak amiss. My intention is good. And, lo, my tale is this.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

there is no escape from sordidness but by being free from money-craving, with all its base hopes and temptations, its watching for death, its hinted requests.

'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

It's considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn't know, what's the point asking him?

Give me the keys.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

If you want to be kissed, you have only to ask.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Oh, Myr, he chokes out. I hate having to ask this of you... He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. You know I'd do anything for you and Hil, she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. You'd do anything? my father repeats numbly. Even now? After -? Even now, the woman says firmly.

Lady Fawn was to say the word, and on the following morning she was closeted with Lucy. "My dear," she began, "we all want you to do us a particular favour." As she said this, she held Lucy by the hand, and no one looking at them would have thought that Lucy was a governess and that Lady Fawn was her employer.

but he had assured her that in the world, as at present arranged, the best way to get a thing is to ask for it.

CHAPTER XXVI GIVE ME SIX MONTHS

At his door she now presented herself, and, having explained to his wife that most urgent business required her to go at once to Barchester, begged that Farmer Subsoil would take her thither in his tax-cart. The farmer did not reject her plan, and, as soon as Prince could be got into his collar, they started on their journey.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. If your friend, she said, would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me.

Say Morg--you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts? There's only a little left.

I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.

Pockets he wants! Let his mother send cloth for pockets and he'll get them. There's a fine how-do-you-do! Pockets!