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Quotes About Request

So many words,' Gregory says. 'So many words and oaths and deeds, that when folk read of them in time to come they will hardly believe such a man as Lord Cromwell walked the earth. You do everything. You have everything. You are everything. So I beg you, grant me an inch of your broad earth, Father, and leave my wife to me.
~ Hilary Mantel
Once Henry says, 'This is my wish,' it becomes so dear and familiar a wish that he thinks he has always had it. He names his need, and he wants it supplied.
~ Hilary Mantel
One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
~ Holly Black
You put a curse on that girl over there," I tell him. "Fix her immediately ." "She admired my ears," the boy says. "I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor." "That's what I am going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers," I tell him. "I was only giving him what he wanted. After all, if he didn't want to be eviscerated, he would have honored my very reasonable request.
~ Holly Black
please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
~ Holly Black
Vow she won't be harmed,' Oak says, breathing hard. 'Also me. I would like not to be harmed as well.
~ Holly Black
You put a curse on that girl over there,' I tell him. 'Fix her immediately.' 'She admired my ears,' the boy says. 'I was only giving her what she desired. A party favour.' 'That's what I'm going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers,' I tell him. 'I was only giving him what he wanted. After all, if he didn't want to be eviscerated, he would have honoured my very reasonable request.
~ Holly Black
One epidural for my headache, please.
~ Liane Moriarty
A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
~ La'Porsha Renae
The honor of your presence is requested at the vivisection of your sister. Black heart optional.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Oh, please could you spare us a little water?" "Certainly," replied the old gentleman; "take as much as you want, and leave the rest." "Thank you so much," murmured George, looking about him.  "Where—where do you keep it?" "It's always in the same place my boy," was the stolid reply: "just behind you.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
What she'd done for him, because he'd asked.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.
~ Germany Kent
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
~ Ben Jonson
Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.
~ Unknown
What do you want? Egg in your beer?
~ Philip K. Dick
he picked up his desk vidphone and said to Miss Marsten, "Get me the Happy Dog Pet Shop on Sutter Street.
~ Philip K. Dick
Man ordering at Butera's deli/prepared-foods counter: "Hey, give me one of them chickens what spins around.
~ David Sedaris
Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.
~ David Weber
I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini—with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please.
~ Ian Fleming
Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district. ...But after his first phrase--'Using the back door will cost you double'--I withdrew my request.
~ Cristina García
If you are, simply request that the Divine change it for you.
~ Unknown
What is it that you want from me?" Everything. But they'd get to that... soon enough.
~ Unknown