Suppliant Quotes

#1. Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. Let your throat-song
be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
suppliant, at the door.

Rumi

#3. These evils I deserve, and more ... Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

John Milton

#4. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

#5. The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer.

Edith Hamilton

#7. These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans.

Edward Gibbon

#8. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.

Amy Landecker

#10. I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Lindi Ortega

#11. We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Suzanne Collins

#12. Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

Peter Cosgrove

#13. We don't care about you.. we care who is behind you... so the idea is you to be the victim and we to catch the killer...

Deyth Banger

#14. Hi Allan, it's Harry'
'Which Harry?'
'Truman, Allan. Harry S. Truman, the president, damn it!'
'How nice! That was a good meal we had Mr President, thank you. I hope you weren't required to fly the plane home?

Jonas Jonasson

#15. Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

Nancy Spain