Plead Quotes

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.
Thomas S. Monson

Hold, Fast, Standards

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison

Men, Lost, Give

Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle Obama

Saying, Sometimes, Keep

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Dick Cheney

Job, Hell, Guilty

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks

God, Honest, Ourselves

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
Ron Fournier

Life, Politics, America

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson

Nature, Human, Culture

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek

Ignorance, Give, Why

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander

Heart, Evil, Apology

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

Free, Debt, Ministry

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks

Book, Dead, Guilty

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly

Power, Insane, Minded

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman

Music, Often, Guilty

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

Time, Men, Cannot

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester

Work, Home, Him

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell

Seems, General, Hesitation

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
Karen O

Ignorance, Dark, Total

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?
Greta Van Susteren

Work, Government, Mind

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas

Ignorance, Here, Artists

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

Sex, Humanity, Mean

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

Writing, Give, Put

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
Lane Kirkland

Love, Free, Word

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.
Frank Reynolds

Feelings, Guilty, Basic

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