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• He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, Feet, Pigeons

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• I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

  David Sedaris

  Halloween, People, Asking

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, 2005.

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• Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hands, Giving, Independence

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• Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

  Neville Goddard

  Desire, Praying, Recognizing

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Cat, Law

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• In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Littles, Sun

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

  Julius Charles Hare

  People, Serious, Kind

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.158

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• By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Splinters, Likes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.34, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."

  Mickey Rourke

  Memories, Fighting, Loss

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Moments, Feels

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 17, 2014

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• I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

  Ledisi

  Competing, Feels, Deserve

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

  Dave Eggers

  Men, Giving, Doe

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• Bragging often precedes begging.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bragging

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• I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Hamburgers, Comedy, Slaughterhouses

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• I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Winter, Events

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Stupid, Flower, Night

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fall, Technology, Airports

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• We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.

  David Banner

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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• There's good in this world. I mean I'm not at all blind to that. God is a good God himself. There are good things. He gives good gifts to His children. But within this world there's a harshness and some of it is unanswered. I don't think I'm trying to provide an answer as much as I am begging people to walk with me in awareness so that we can push back the darkness.

  Tedashii

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• I think the hardest part is figuring out what to say no to because the whole start of your career is just begging anybody to let you perform or to contribute music to something. Then it's like turning on a faucet because the moment it's on, people are like, "Oh, you can do stuff? All right. Well, you want to do it every single thing?

  Dan Deacon

  Thinking, People, Moments

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

  Samuel Witwer

  Thinking, Merry Go Round

  "Star Wars Rebels: Sam Witwer on Maul's Fateful Encounter With Obi-Wan". Interview with Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I am not a huge fan of the Celtic Tiger; I was so glad that you could see people being prosperous, that you didn't see people begging, that the city started looking good, that people had jobs. But it was almost like if you have such a hard time for so long, then you turn around and give a kid a check for a million quid, they're going to go nuts. And we went a bit nuts, we went up our ass.

  Gavin Friday

  Kids, Hard Times, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize.

  Colin Farrell

  Believe, Realizing, Monogamy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• At the end of the tour last year, I was completely fried. I felt my soul was begging me to give it a release. Two long trips to Costa Rica and to Iceland I've made were the best things I could have ever done for myself and you see it with the songs I wrote before I left and the songs I wrote after - there are two different Kips in there.

  Kip Moore

  Song, Long, Giving

  Source: people.com

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• Now I'm in nonfiction. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. There's always that matching of the content and the form, and that means everything to me. I spend years thinking about what that match is going to be before I can really make it work.

  Dave Eggers

  Mean, Thinking, Novel

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