#plead

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#angry #beautiful #become #face #fifteen

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing. ↗

— William Pepper

#any #aside #brother #cause #could

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#demands #endures #fifth #first #first kiss

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#especially #everywhere #expect #humanity #i

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#find #forget #literature #me #pleaded

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#debt #finances #free #had #ministry

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#days #every #full #i #lead

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

#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#cause #contributor #editor #financial #independent