Request Quotes - Page 6

• There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Real, Communication, Two

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• The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

  Mary Landrieu

  The End Of The Day, President, Cost

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• When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money.

  Julius Malema

  Morning, Nice, Waiting

  "South African court finds ANC's Julius Malema guilty of hate speech" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

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• EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

  Jimmy Wales

  Support

  "Arbcom". Wikipedia-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 17, 2007.

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• We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

  Daniel Fried

  Government, Uzbekistan, Discussion

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• I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Golden, Reason, Ten Commandments

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

  Arthur Helps

  Giving, Simplicity, Foundation

  Sir Arthur Helps (1851). “Fruits of leisure, or Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.97

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• When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Heart, Fundraising

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• No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

  Paul Ryan

  Writing, Government, People

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• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

  Alma Gluck

  Advice, Want, Students

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• Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

  Jeff Flake

  Filled Out, Lobbyists, Staff

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• Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

  Friedrich Paulus

  Army, Order, Troops

  "The World Changers" by Bruce Bliven, (p. 171), 1965.

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  Kate Smith

  America, Presidential, Speech

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.

  Louis XIV

  Government, Order, Each Day

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• From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

  Pharrell Williams

  Learning, Views, Issues

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• Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to say, "At least you, say forgive me, so as to humble your soul and to receive mercy." Again, there was no request for forgiveness. She also answered, "The serpent deceived me," as if she wanted to say, "If the serpent sinned, where is my mistake?"

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Lakes, Vegas, Athletic

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.

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• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  Carl Spitteler

  Father, Zurich, Law

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• The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

  David A. Bednar

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  Seth Godin

  Joy, Consistency, Humanity

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• SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Doctors, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.321

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• I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Giving, Soldier, Ordinary

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• The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attitude, Years, People

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• I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

  Danny Wallace

  Suggestions, Favors, Invitations

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