Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

I always feel a bit awkward when it`s time to talk about the K.I.N.D. fund. I don`t want to be one of those guys on a telephone begging you to contribute.

John Jackson

We are begging to see a manifestation of consumer electronics in the phone space and vice versa.

Erich von Stroheim

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.

Eric Massa

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

We are here in the best tradition of Ronald Reagan, begging the party to do the right thing. The party cannot have it both ways. This is a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.

Kathleen Blanco

We were begging for more resources, and you know, eventually, we got enough resources. It just took more days than we wanted it to take.

Mariella Frostrup

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

Usually I order six to eight books and pick out something. Some years it's hard and other years something just jumps out. I put a little time in casting. I try to get the personality to fit an actor. Sometimes I read a play and know who belongs to a role right away. And, I've done a lot of begging in the last 20 years.

Keke Palmer

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and people who survived disaster will continue to die while they wait for aid.

We've been begging these guys to run all year long and we have not been able to get them to run. At times tonight we pushed it a little bit and we would love to do it more.

It's really a shame. Everyone in the retail community has been begging them to come together on a format. We're not serving the customer by a format war.

I'm looking at people who are begging for ice and water and (a) presence. I'm seeing the same sort of thing that horrified us after Hurricane Andrew. ... I realize they've got a huge job. Nobody understands better than I do what they're trying to respond to, but ...

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

There's still debate, but it doesn't frame the issue as strongly as someone who's saying the statute is unfair or begging for his life.

In the second half we didn't let them come back, unlike at the begging of the season when we weren't winning close games.

I'm begging you ... don't let my daughter die of thirst.

I'm begging the community, please just help find Grandma. I don't want to blame. Yes, maybe I could have done more. Maybe my family could have done something else.

I had 18 meetings at the school when he was in 10th grade. Eighteen. I could see his skills were getting worse, and I was begging them to please help my son.

If you know him, if you heard anything, please, we are begging you for closure, we have got to have some closure on this case.

If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

I'm used to fixing stuff. I'm not used to begging for money. It chokes me.

Clearly there are a lot of industries in tech that are just begging to be consolidated. So the question is not whether the pace of M&A picks up in 2005 but whether it will represent a breaking of the dam.

Ann Veneman

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

But we didn't get any stops. That's what I was begging for. ... We know what they do, we know what we needed to stop -- points in the paint. That's where they're good. We needed to pack it in there and get the stops.

Ledisi

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending 80% of your time begging for money - it's so debilitating on a candidate.

The lifestyle I saw at the time, when I used to go to Iraq for work, was completely different from the one that I see now. People were clearly much more prosperous, their lifestyle was much better, their health was clearly much more healthy. You didn't see beggars, for example, on the streets, or either women or children begging on the streets or near the mosque as you do now.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry control all the levers of the nuclear program, and there's no point begging Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

Henry A. Kissinger

an occasion to blow off their frustrations on an issue on which they didn't look as if they are begging (the United States) for help.

Chris Rose

The most open, joyous, free-wheeling, celebratory city in the country is broken, hurting, down on its knees. Failing. Begging for help. Somebody turn this movie off; I don't want to watch it anymore. I want a slow news day. I want a no news day.

asking, begging military commanders precisely not to do that.