Petitioner Quotes

#1. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Toby Young

#3. Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

Margaret Cavendish

#5. The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#6. Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

Lajos Kossuth

#8. Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Samuel Johnson

#9. A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Robert Jackson

#11. Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Shannen Doherty

#13. For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

Rufus Sewell

#14. [H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

Benjamin E. Mays

#15. Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

Jess Walter

#16. Each day I'm thankful for being chosen. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would have been like if we'd never met ... I'd rather lose you now than have gone a lifetime without this.

Kiera Cass

#17. Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Bodhidharma

#18. In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey

#19. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Raheel Farooq

#20. A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#21. I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.

Jon Crosby

#22. Remember what I give it's a part of the puzzle. What I give is a part of the lise, what I give is a lesson!

Deyth Banger

#23. Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Jean Racine

#24. Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Max Lucado