Beseechers Quotes & Sayings

If you are a police dog, where's your badge? — James Thurber

So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will
One will of mine to make thy large Will more.
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one, Will — William Shakespeare

It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left
a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it? — John Steinbeck

Moreover, since (as chapters 3 and 5 will argue) tolerance requires that the tolerated refrain from demands or incursions on public or political life that issue from their "difference," the subject of tolerance is tolerated only so long as it does not make a political claim, that is, so long as it lives and practices its "difference" in a depoliticized or private fashion. In addition to being at odds with the epistemological and political stance to which many politicized identities aspire, this requirement also results in the discursive suppression of the social powers that constitute "difference" as well as in the strengthening of the hegemony of unmarked cultures, ethnicities, races, or sexualities; — Wendy Brown

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. — David O. McKay

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other. — Frank Capra

I like to play women who blaze trails. — Hilary Swank

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock. — Oscar Straus

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Start relying on God for everything, expecting and hoping to receive only His acclamation. Glorify Him and consecrate yourself to Him anew. — Sunday Adelaja

The whole concept of sexual attraction had become a clinical observation of how other people were. — Kitty Thomas

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures. — Jim Butcher

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman. — Steven Weber