Petitioned Quotes

#1. We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.

Sarah Gavron

#2. The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

Leila Aboulela

#3. Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

#4. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. They experienced the world, I supposed, as I experienced going to the movies: that flash of amazement petitioned, in part, from feeling small in the presence of bigness.

Durga Chew-Bose

#6. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#7. This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

Kevin Garnett

#8. Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

June Jordan

#9. Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

Mason Cooley

#10. With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

Dean Martin

#11. If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

John Maynard Keynes

#12. I see it now.
There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest

Lauren DeStefano

#13. The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

El Lissitzky

#14. I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#15. I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

Jeff Perry

#16. In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow ...

William Henry Hudson

#17. I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

Nicki Minaj

#18. There were no glimmering moments where their looks hooked on to each other and grew hot, and no catching sight of one of the boys in a ray of sun and thinking, I wonder what his skin tastes like.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Arabella Weir

#20. Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.

Chris Guillebeau

#21. One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.

Donald Hall