Quotes of: Pleads Keyword

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Douglas Hurd

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Nature

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Thomas S. Monson

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Karen O

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Noam Chomsky

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Lloyd Alexander

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

Frank Reynolds

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Dick Cheney

I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans get it.

Tim Huelskamp

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Arthur Erickson

Help her," Peter pleaded. "Do something. You have ways. Your potions. Your medicines. Do something.

The Child Thief

I plead the fifth—and then I drank it. I was drunk on love, but wouldn’t admit it. I was also drunk on whiskey, but the breathalyzer outed me.

Xazaqazax

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Lucy Stone

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Helen Rowland

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Linda Grant

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Mortimer Adler