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Quotes About Request

The key to getting hired is to understand the narrative of the customer's life in such rich detail that you are able to design a solution that far exceeds anything the customer themselves could have found words to request. In hindsight, breakthrough insights might seem obvious, but they rarely are. In fact, they're fundamentally contrarian: you see something that others have missed.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
We'd like to talk to you, sir, if you don't mind," said the woman of the trio. "You see, we're a sort of delegation.
~ Clifford D. Simak
He is in control, but He will give us what we ask for. If all of this was God's will, then we wouldn't have to pray for His will to be done.
~ Victoria Christopher Murray
he lei rispettasse e venerasse come rispettava e venerava lui. Era prontissima a fidarsi di quel che diceva lui, rispose. […] andavano da lei, spontaneamente, perché lei era una donna, tutto il giorno, con questa o quella richiesta; uno voleva una cosa, un altro un'altra; i ragazzi crescevano; a volte le sembrava di non essere altro che una spugna imbevuta di emozioni umane.
~ Virginia Woolf
Non c'era nessuno che lei rispettasse e venerasse come rispettava e venerava lui. Era prontissima a fidarsi di quel che diceva lui, rispose. […] andavano da lei, spontaneamente, perché lei era una donna, tutto il giorno, con questa o quella richiesta; uno voleva una cosa, un altro un'altra; i ragazzi crescevano; a volte le sembrava di non essere altro che una spugna imbevuta di emozioni umane.
~ Virginia Woolf
I...I...I...want...your...other...arm!
~ Larry Kramer
Most people don't understand the psychology of asking, which is why it is so difficult to ask for (let alone receive) the things that are essential in your life.
~ Laura Fredricks
Mama!" a little boy squealed. "Take me closer!
~ Lauren Tarshis
in September of 1517, Magellan asked if he could offer his services elsewhere
~ Laurence Bergreen
call Social Security (1-800-772-1213 [TTY 1-800-325-0778]), or visit a local Social Security office, and tell them you want to suspend benefits. The agency is supposed to provide you a notice that says: We have received your request to stop your benefits to earn special credits that will increase the benefits you will receive at age 70. We will reinstate your benefits at age 70, adding the special credits to your benefit amount.
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
TO: Social Security Administration FROM: John Doe (Social Security #123-45-6789; Birthdate xx-xx-xxxx) RE: Request to file and suspend retirement benefit I am writing to "file and suspend" my benefits effective as of Month Day, Year, when I will be AB years and CD months old. Please confirm your receipt and approval of this request via email or letter. Sincerely, John Doe
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away? "You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Mr. Frank. I want to be called Grace or Grace S., please," Miss Lois said, "Now
~ Charise Mericle Harper
May I borrow a cup of cyanide?
~ Charles Addams
Oliver Twist has asked for more!
~ Charles Dickens
Please, sir, I want some more.
~ Charles Dickens
Those procedures might include certification by independent practitioners that the patient was terminally ill within the meaning of the relevant law; that the patient had voluntarily requested euthanasia, having been fully informed of the prognostic and palliative facts; that there was no undue influence on the patient from relatives or carers; that there had been a 'cooling-off' period since the request for euthanasia; that the request was signed and duly witnessed; and so on.
~ Charles Foster
If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side.
~ Grace Metalious
Seu Tomás da bolandeira falava bem, estragava os olhos em cima de jornais e livros, mas não sabia mandar: pedia. Esquisitice um homem remediado ser cortês. Até o povo censurava aquelas maneiras. Mas todos obedeciam a ele. Ah! Quem disse que não obedeciam?
~ Graciliano Ramos
LaMar S. Williams, an employee in the Missionary Department, who began to send pamphlets and overruns of the church magazines each month, sometimes several hundred pounds per shipment.94 A short time later, in 1960, church leaders requested that Glen G. Fisher, who had just been released as president of the South African Mission, visit Nigeria on his way home
~ Gregory A. Prince
Room service? Send up a larger room." [ A Night at the Opera ]
~ Groucho Marx
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
~ James Joyce
O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh
~ James Joyce