Request Quotes

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

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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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Business, Men

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• I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Trying, Warm Hearted

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• My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Indignation

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  Percy Ross

  Clever, Humorous, Doors

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• Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blow, Icy, Chill

  Gustave Flaubert (1992). “Madame Bovary”

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• We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

  Mr. Krabs

  Guests, Ridiculous, Deny

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• If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Serious, Discipleship

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• When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

  George Barna

  Opportunity, News, Agendas

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• Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Love You, Punishment

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• Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

  Charlotte Selver

  Answers, Moments, Certain

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• Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

  Catherine McCormack

  Directors, Actors, Process

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

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• Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Opportunity, Giving

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• Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Jupiter, Complaining, Should

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• Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Prayer, Granted, Process

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• Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.

  Jay Baer

  Inspiration, Greatness, Marketing

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• Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Writing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. That devotion to true principle in our individual lives, in our homes and families, and in all places that we meet and influence other people-that devotion is what God is ultimately requesting of us.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Integrity, Home, Commitment

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• No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

  Julius Caesar

  Ears, Want, Charming

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• Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Practice, Radio Waves

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Simple, Night

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• Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

  Gary Chapman

  Love Is, Giving, Demand

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.60, Moody Publishers

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• Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, ... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma. ... Prayer is a "creator" of vision, ... .

  Henry Corbin

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

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• Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

  Hermann Hesse

  Able, Way, Certain

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Humility, Hands

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