Request Quotes - Page 9

• Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Weed, Hands, Two

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• I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

  George Hamilton

  Taken, Turned Down, Autographs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

  Paul Cellucci

  Military, America, Looks

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• The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Silence, Facts

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Character, Rights

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• I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

  James Rollins

  Book, Writing, Doors

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• Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

  Eli Wallach

  Interviews, Wells, My Own

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Thinking, Gone

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• Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

  Terence Tao

  Negative, Surprise, Stranger

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• Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.

  Dutch Sheets

  Prayer, Character, Soul

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• If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Honor, Companionship

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

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• One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

  William Stafford

  Rain, Home, Winning

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

  Joseph Hall

  Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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• I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

  Claude Monet

  Technique, Knows

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• The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

  Tim Lucas

  Eye, North Carolina, Rising

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• I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.

  Robert Clark

  Cancer, Smoking, Warning

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• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, Regret, Addresses

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

  Walt Disney

  Prayer, Promise, Levels

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  Bill Vaughan

  Patience, Men, Details

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Sports, Baseball, Prayer

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

  Samuel Smiles

  Use, Lasts, Influential

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Daughter, Children, Parent

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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