Requests Quotes

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

I'd like to see America but I'm afraid to risk it.

As soon as I got over Mr. Frohman might request me to sit in a box at the performance of one of my plays.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business;

many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

The only thing I really love is Fiji water.

That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

A man who kills on his own is a murderer.

A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request.

If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

I do get a lot of requests for specific things.

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country.

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount.

We're entitled to give them a recount.

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

I have attended to your request about the armistice.

Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

Now there is a new request. To release transcripts of speeches that were given. When everybody agrees to do that, I will as well. It is important we all abide by the same standards. So let's do the tax return standard first, because that has been the standard for a long time.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers.

He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.