Top 100 Quotes About Plead
#1. Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
Friedrich Engels
#3. 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
#4. With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a more remunerative outlet for his legal knowledge. Inspired
David Mitchell
#5. I plead that it's very difficult when you deal with ISIS and organizations like that whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power and that's very difficult to put ourselves in the other shoe.
Hillary Clinton
#6. In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Dick Cheney
#7. For though to let loose the bridle to lusts, while our opinions are against such things, is bad; yet, to sin, and plead a toleration so to do, is worse. The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.
Bunyan, John
#8. A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#9. I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas
#10. History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.
Edward Gibbon
#11. I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
Matt Groening
#12. 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
#13. Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott
#14. We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20
Beth Moore
#15. O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
Christina Rossetti
#16. But God in heaven is the judge of such things, and to him I plead my case.
Julie Berry
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.
Lee Child
#20. Listen to hypotheses as they plead their cases before you, but remember that you are not a hypothesis, you are the judge. Therefore do not seek to argue for one side or another, for if you knew your destination, you would already be there.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#21. This is my favorite place. Buried in you," he murmurs against my skin.
"Please, move," I plead.
"Slow, Mrs. Grey." He flexes his hips again and pleasure radiates through me. I cup his face and kiss him, consuming him.
"Love me. Please, Christian.
E.L. James
#22. 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks
#23. I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.
Warren Zevon
#24. Wery weeny wight, plead for Morandmor! Notre Dame de la Ville, mercy of thy balmheartzyheat!
James Joyce
#25. Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
William S. Burroughs
#26. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
Albert Gonzalez
#28. To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell
#29. That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character
Donald Maass
#30. As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
Edward Abbey
#31. I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
Ben Mendelsohn
#32. You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
Anthony Trollope
#34. If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#35. Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa
Robert Sobukwe
#36. I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.
Jerry Vines
#37. Sometimes, when he wanted to hide or not outright lie, he chose to speak in English. He used to break into it when he argued with my mother, and it drove her crazy when he did and she would just plead, "No, no!" as though he had suddenly introduced a switchblade into a clean fistfight.
Chang-rae Lee
#38. 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
#39. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with
Harper Lee
#41. Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
Bill Walsh
#42. Obligation
They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need,
World-over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.
Edgar A. Guest
#43. I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
Jorge Luis Borges
#44. I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.
Bruno Mars
#45. God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.
Charles Spurgeon
#46. Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.
David Wilkerson
#47. May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
Jonathan Lethem
#48. He realized with sudden clarity that the power axis in a conflict shifted once your adversary had heard you plead for divine intervention while her hands and mouth and body brought you to screaming climax on her kitchen table.
Jane Rainwater
#49. But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our story, to show you that what you've done ... to make you realize that what you did wasn't fair, wasn't right.
Lucy Christopher
#50. O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.
William Shakespeare
#51. We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.
Andrew Wommack
#52. I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.
Thomas S. Monson
#53. I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.
Frank Reynolds
#54. Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden
#55. When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well ...
Mary Blakely
#56. He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding.
Anais Nin
#57. O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.
David Brainerd
#58. The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in His service, the Holy Ghost will come and confirm our faith in Him. Our faith in the Savior will increase. And, as we continue to serve Him, we will come to love Him.
Henry B. Eyring
#59. I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.
Thomas S. Monson
#60. 9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
Eugene Kennedy
#61. Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.
Hillary Clinton
#62. Come on, Arianna," I plead as I hold her close, "come back to me.
Brittany DeLys
#63. Decide not rashly. The decision made
Can never be recalled. The gods implore not,
Plead not, solicit not; they only offer
Choice and occasion, which once being passed
Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#64. If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.
Bill Moyers
#65. If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
Bear Bryant
#66. Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.
Dan Rostenkowski
#67. But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#68. The want of punctuality is a want of honest principle; for however people may think themselves authorised to rob God and themselves of their own time, they can plead no right to lay a violent hand on the time and duties of their neighbor.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
#69. You have to get rid of my wings!" I plead
"But, I like your wings," he says, smiling sweetly while stroking them again.
I swear, if he keeps doing that I might purr like a kitten
Amy A. Bartol
#70. He felt the greatness and goodness of his purpose so sincerely: others who heard him plead for it, could not but feel it too.
Charlotte Bronte
#71. Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#72. I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
Karen O
#73. Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#74. In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.
Johnny Hunt
#75. Fair Katherine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
William Shakespeare
#76. Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.
Frederick Lenz
#77. He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?
Hank Williams Jr.
#78. Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16
Felix Wantang
#82. Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
Hudson Taylor
#83. Thandiwe, when they come for you, do not scream. Do not plead. Do not cry, for your cries are but song to them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#85. The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#86. Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
Euripides
#87. I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can't do Moonlight again - it's finished. The bottom line is that my true fans will follow me where I go.
Alex O'Loughlin
#88. Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it? ... the law of force itself, to those who could not plead any other, has always seemed the most natural of all grounds for the exercise of authority.
John Stuart Mill
#89. Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give
but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.
W. Ian Thomas
#90. To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
Lane Kirkland
#91. But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don't plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
Banksy
#93. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
Johnny Hunt
#94. I reread this letter several times. I could scarcely deny its authorship or its ugliness. All I could plead was that I had been its author then, but was not its author now. Indeed, I didn't recognise that part of myself from which the letter came. But perhaps this was simply further self-deception.
Julian Barnes
#95. In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
#96. A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
George Washington
#97. Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
V.C. Andrews
#99. Tell me I am going to be alright," I plead to my Tiger Lily.
"You're not alright," the flower talks back. "You're insane, Alice. Insane!" It spreads it's petals and spits in my face. I am hallucinating again.
Cameron Jace
#100. Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.
Michael Isikoff
