Request Quotes - Page 2

• I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

  Stan Collymore

  Soccer, Clubs, Want

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• I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Book, Thinking

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• So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Personality, Mentor

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.233, Scholastic Inc.

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• A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried in her mind all the precious trappings of the castle she could think of -jewels, weapons, art-and she saw that the others must be doing the same. What did the Sacoridians possess that would be good enough for the Eletian prince? "My brother," Graelalea said, "requires many pounds of dark chocolate fudge and Dragon Droppings. We must visit the Master of Chocolate.

  Kristen Britain

  Art, Brother, Dark

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• When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.

  Markus Zusak

  Kissing, Style, Arms

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Psychology, Opinion

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

  Ann Patchett

  Giving, Looks, Priests

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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• Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hate, Dying, Dies

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• from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

  Martin Luther

  Ignorance, Erasmus, Matter

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.299, Fortress Press

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• It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request.

  David Henry

  Girlfriend, Character, Bed

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• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Power, Government

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• This liberty is all that I request.

  William Shakespeare

  4th Of July, Liberty

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.239

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• The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request.

  G. H. Pember

  Communication, Intelligent, Air

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• Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

  Oliver Stone

  Revenge, Men, Two

  "Conan the Barbarian". www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Men, Quality

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• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Favors, Privilege

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• I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

  William Tyndale

  Prayer, Men, Praying

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.383

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• You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• Now that I have confirmed that the Vikings have been seeking to trade me, I have asked for permission to speak to the interested teams. The Vikings have denied my request. If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Team, Trade Me, Asking

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• ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Children, People

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• I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

  Robert D. Hales

  Sister, Mother, Respect

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• I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

  Barry Goldwater

  Air, Effort, Secret

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• It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Ideas

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