No Request Quotes

#1. If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down.

Gordon Brown

#2. If your heart is in your dream, no request is to extreme.

Carlo Collodi

#3. When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.

Markus Zusak

#4. When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket
Never, never, never give up. Winston Spencer Churchill

Sheelagh McGrath

#5. Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Kit Bond

#6. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.

Ernessa T. Carter

#7. By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#8. Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

Ian McEwan

#9. No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

Paul Ryan

#10. Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#11. You have no idea. Lillith was defiant and obstinate. Adam was, well, he was a man. He thought with his dick. He asked God for a companion. It was his only request. God told him his wife would show herself to him. He misunderstood. He came upon Lillith bathing in the lake.

T.L. Brown

#12. NO" is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone's request with a simple No.

Sharon E. Rainey

#13. At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.

Robert Fisk

#14. Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.

Pawan Mishra

#15. So long as the investigation is still open, Gunnels explains, there is no way to request documents pertaining to the case through the Freedom of Information Act. "That investigation will probably stay open a long time," he says.

Matt Taibbi

#16. If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Bill Hybels

#17. By the time she'd finished with him, with a little encouraging pat and a request that he rest quiet like a good lad, there was no point in denying it: Holly Evernight would be the death of him.

Kristen Callihan

#18. I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

Danny Wallace

#19. Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

Jack Canfield

#20. I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]

Dante Alighieri

#21. "Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

David Mamet

#22. (...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no.

Margaret Atwood

#23. If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Henry A. Kissinger

#24. To compromise, Only do so if you want to agree with the request.

Auliq Ice

#25. No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.

Karen Hawkins

#26. 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

#27. As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)

Lorrie Moore

#28. And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

Fred Thompson

#29. Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.

Tahereh Mafi

#30. Many of us feel compelled to agree to every request, and would rather juggle a million jobs than refuse to help even if we are left with no time for ourselves.

Auliq Ice

#31. There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Marc Evan Jackson

#32. Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

Omar Suleiman

#33. A good dad will fulfill his daughter's request - but only if it's the right gift, at the right time. Sometimes he may give the gracious gift of saying no. But always - always - he cares about his child's request.

Stephanie Rische

#34. The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort to leave a transparent trace of God's love in our life.

Pope Benedict XVI