Solicitations Quotes

#1. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,

Thomas Ligotti

#2. It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.

Samuel Adams

#3. Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

John Owen

#4. Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?

Maria Dahvana Headley

#5. As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.

Eric Schneiderman

#6. One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

Phyllis McGinley

#7. It seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

George Eliot

#8. There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#9. The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Rebecca West

#10. I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

Howard Schultz

#11. There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

#12. I don't remember her name, but I do remember how her perm shone in the glow of our night-light.

Junot Diaz

#13. The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.

William James

#14. But before we get started, does anyone, uh, have any questions for me?" There's a long silence. Finally, Barrie raises his hand, and I hold my breath as I wait for his question. "Will Ryan Wesley come to one of our games?

Sarina Bowen

#15. The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Karl Marx

#16. In the flickering lantern light, she looked like an avenging angel standing there. Her hair was a tangled mess and her face was swollen to hell, but her hand was rock steady on that weapon, even with the pain she had to be in. The deadly intent was clear on her face.

Kaylea Cross

#17. I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.

Howard Stringer

#18. I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...

Shaun Hick

#19. What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

Anais Nin

#20. If Satan can defeat you in your thoughts then he can defeat you anywhere else as well,

Joyce Meyer