Request Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and... a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a "tide..." A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet... But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, Feet, People

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• Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

  John Milton

  Men, Darkness, Clay

  John Milton (1838). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.357

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• I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

  Sarah MacLean

  Hurt, Lying, Years

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• You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

  Brent Weeks

  Definitions, Obedience, Said

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

  Marc Maron

  Mean, Years, Adults

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.161, Random House Group

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• I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Education, Use, May

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!

  Catherine Coleman

  Instruction, Pacing, Missions

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• I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Jobs, Single Mom, Two

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• I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

  Richard Darman

  Anniversary, Looks, Firsts

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• I do get a lot of requests for specific things.

  Michael Winslow

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

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

  Margaret Sanger

  Intelligent, Government, Insane

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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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• 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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