Plea Quotes

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. — William Shakespeare

Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release. — Rachel Cohn

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. — Theodore Roosevelt

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'. — C. G. Jung

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. — George Orwell

Days XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps — Charles Dickens

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense. — James Ellroy

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. — Bertolt Brecht

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities. — John Ruskin

Dreams are the Universe's plea for expansion. — Don Francis

A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning
-Drunk Dialing the Divine — Amber Koneval

His glance was like a plea, like the cry for help of a man who could never cry. — Ayn Rand

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual. — Kahlil Gibran

There will come into every life moments of despair and the need for direction from a divine source-even an unspoken plea for help. — Thomas S. Monson

I looked to Demi. "Save him," I said, half command, half plea. She nodded. "I will," she said, and started playing again. This — Seanan McGuire

Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together. — Lucian Bane

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? - Sonnet LXV — William Shakespeare

Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'. — Kent Hovind

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. — Mahatma Gandhi

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. — Charles Spurgeon

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight. — Roy Cohn

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake

Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it. — Joey W. Hill

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. — William Blake

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. — William Henry Harrison

Instead of accepting plea bargains, large numbers of people collectively demand their constitutional right to a jury of their peers. — Daniel Hunter

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln

XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still — Charles Dickens

The way people pray- casting my plea into the ether. A plea to be understood. Looking for signs. — M. Pierce

THE INSANITY PLEA A Novel Larry D. Thompson — Larry D. Thompson

In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love. — Karen Salmansohn

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity. — Tony Martin

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt — Charles Spurgeon

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

I love my son. I love my kids, my family, Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. — Adrian Peterson

Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power. — Billy Graham

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. — C.S. Lewis

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. — Morley Safer

Seth rubbed his nose against Dom's shoe in a silent plea. The leather was so soft. So unlike Dom's heart. — K.A. Merikan

Come for me." His words were a plea, whispered hotly in her ear. — Evangeline Collins

What are my books but one plea against "man's inhumanity to man" --to woman-- and to the lower animals? — Thomas Hardy

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain. — Mark Twain

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative — Milton Friedman

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away. — Babatunde Adebimpe

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea. — James Baldwin

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one. — Art Garfunkel

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. — Al-Ma'arri

Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book — Charles Dickens

Dawson ... It's a whispered plea, but I don't know if I'm asking for more or begging him to stop. — Jasinda Wilder

Where's the goddamn giant? — Jason Aaron

I sent my story to Hannah the way people pray - casting my plea into the ether. A plea to be understood. Looking for the signs. — M. Pierce

The Supreme Court has declared that such a plea of nolo contendere "admits guilt for the purposes of the case. — George W. Stocking

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb