Begging Quotes - Page 10

• I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jobs, New York, Years

  "Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 2, 2014.

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• Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

  Will Smith

  Asking, Dignity, Diminish

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• Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

  Gregory Maguire

  Population, Pardon, Force

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• I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cat, Begging You, Voice

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• we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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• Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

  Markus Zusak

  Rooftops, Arms, Sometimes

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• Keep your shirt on," she said with a laugh at her bad joke. "Your clothes are at the laundry. They'll deliver them as soon as they're ready." "And in the meantime?" "Looks like you're naked." His jaw worked as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I beg your pardon?" "Beg all you want, you're still going to be naked." Tabitha paused at the wicked image in her mind. "Come to think of it, a gorgeous, begging, naked man… that's the stuff of fantasies. Begging won't get you your clothes, but it could get you something else." She wiggled her eyebrows at him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?

  Steve Martin

  Views, Blood, Age

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

  Josh Lanyon

  People, Principles, Murder

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• The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

  Amanda Hocking

  Doing You, Favors, Desperation

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• The men gasped at Nicholas. "That's the most I've heard him say in three years." Sam said. He turned to the others. "You ever hear him talk that much?" "I wasn't sure he could talk," Tucker Addison replied straight-faced. "He talks," Dahlia said defensively. "Begging your pardon, ma'am, but he's just plain anti-social," Sam pointed out, "Always had been, always will be.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Years, Three

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• A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.

  Greg Behrendt

  Giving, Dating, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

  Melina Marchetta

  Grieving, Paper, Pages

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• Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love Is, Daddy, Littles

  Gabrielle Zevin (2012). “All These Things I've Done”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Flower, Fawns

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.707, Delphi Classics

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• There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Rain, Emotional, Fire

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

  Sarah MacLean

  Ceilings, Lord, Divine

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• I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.

  Taylor Swift

  Moving, Parent, Bases

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• We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Good Luck, Sheep

  "The Lost Symbol".

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• "Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh. I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile; she can't be saved.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Pain

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

  Charles Dickens

  Teacher, Spring, Ignorance

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising All His Wills and His Ways, with an Historical Record of what He Did, and what He Didn't ...”, p.245

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• It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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• Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Jesus, Kings, Names

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• Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?

  David Platt

  Jesus, Prayer, Taken

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• There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now.

  Karen Wheaton

  Real, Being Real, Generations

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