Begging Quotes

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
Mitt Romney

Government, Special, Less

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Care, Justice

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Order

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes

Power, Stand, Earn

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.
Kim Kardashian

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing

Interest, Stealing, Borrowing

I don't like begging money from producers.
David Byrne

Money, Producers

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
James McGreevey

Life, Purpose, Lives

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Benedict Cumberbatch

Wrong, Hair, Head

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.
George Galloway

Demanding, Perjury, Prosecuted

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
Ted Cruz

Life, Time, Great

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
Dave Eggers

Story, Might, Involved

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
Eartha Kitt

Walk, Stage, Affection

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Rod Taylor

Wisdom, May, Poor

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
Aishwarya Rai

Fact, Role, Signed

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.
Matt Damon

Money, Play, Away

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Ted Cruz

Life, Faith, Work

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Paz de la Huerta

Money, Amazing, Bad

People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
Sade Adu

Someone, Attention, Hold

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
Dan Harmon

Trying, Liking, Trick

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Erich von Stroheim

Love, Mother, Father

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Felix Frankfurter

Real, Wrong, Question

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.
Jeremy London

Brother, Attention, Growing

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
Dana Carvey

Parents, After, Off

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.
Jonny Greenwood

Two, Friends, Guitar

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.
Giovanni Ribisi

Life, Movies, Mother

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.
Giovanni Ribisi

Movies, Mother, Father

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.
Eric Massa

Money, Between, Spend

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Pete Domenici

Leadership, Energy, Problems

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
Satish Kumar

Food, Water, Three

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