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Quotes About Request

People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'
~ Andy Serkis
If I can just continue to work and be at least requested to work, I consider that a victory.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
David, I just broke into your home. Clearly I don't respect boundaries. Do you really think a verbal request is going to put a dent in any of my plans?
~ Lisa Lutz
One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.
~ Liza Mundy
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
~ Lord Chesterfield
There's a difference between a criticism and a complaint, how the former contains judgment while the latter contains a request. But a complaint can also be an unvoiced compliment.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Pretty please. With sugar.
~ Jim Butcher
Crows take you Gaius Sextus. Even when you make a request you leave me no choices. They do seem to have grown a bit sparse, these past few years, he agreed quietly.
~ Jim Butcher
She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
~ Jodi Picoult
The adhan," the father explained. "God is great; there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." he looked up at me and smiled. "In Islam, we want the first words a child hears to be a prayer." It seemed absolutely fitting, give the miracle that every baby is. The differences between the Muslim father's request and the request made by Turk Bauer was like the difference between day and night. Between love and hate.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you don't ask for that which you want to know,the answer will always be no.
~ Unknown
This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.
~ Virgil
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
~ Voltaire
When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.
~ Lucy Liu
Poderoso Júpiter, dadnos bienes; ya te los pidamos o no, y aleja de nosotros los males, aun cuando te los pidamos.»
~ Plato
He has a last request to make to them—that they will trouble his sons as he has troubled them, if they appear to prefer riches to virtue, or to think themselves something when they are nothing.
~ Plato
While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by the other immensities that framed his present circumstance. Even if there were no Consult, no threat of the Second Apocalypse, he realized, nothing would be the same. Kellhus would change the world, not in the way of an Ajencis or a Triamis, but in the way of an Inri Sejenus. This, Achamian realized, was Year One. A new age of Men.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
~ Rachel Caine
Shane grudgingly donating blood - Yeah about that...could you get us a human ? Shane asked. It creeps me out when a guy`s draining my blood and I hear his stomach rumble.
~ Rachel Caine
Get out of bed and feed me already, person!
~ Unknown
The request had been impossible to refuse, delivered as it was in Darcy's perennial air of wry cheer—a demeanor Aaron was certain was tattooed onto the English genome, right beside wry despair.
~ Rachel Kadish