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I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them. -- Kim Kardashian
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. -- Will Smith
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. -- Felix Frankfurter
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. -- Doris Lessing
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 Bachchan
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
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
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
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
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
Beggars should be no choosers. -- John Heywood
Borrowing is not much better than begging. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention. -- Jeremy London
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. -- Martin Luther
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force. -- Gregory Maguire
Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? -- Rabia Basri
Because I was flat out wrong I'm on my knees Begging that you Will forgive me, please -- John Walter Bratton
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. -- Satish Kumar
Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness! -- Chris Oyakhilome
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg -- Oscar Wilde
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating. -- George Ayittey
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. -- Pete Domenici
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties. -- Winston Churchill
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
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. -- Jack Handey
Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words. -- Teodora Savu
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down. -- Angelina Jolie
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
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. -- Kirk Douglas
I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. -- George Galloway
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. -- Katharine Lee Bates
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me. -- Dan Harmon
M&S clothes just get better and better, year after year. I'm always begging for stuff from every shoot we do. -- Twiggy
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
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
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food. -- Kabir Bedi
How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point. -- Rachel Nichols
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. -- Mariella Frostrup
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
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
As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you. -- Mika
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up. -- David Rakoff
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
Bragging often precedes begging. -- B. C. Forbes
Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never. -- Mason Cooley
I don't like begging money from producers. -- David Byrne
A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating. -- Dave Eggers
The world is begging for you to lead. -- Seth Godin
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing. -- Garth Nix
Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me. -- Tupac Shakur
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have. -- James MacDonald
Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. -- Moss Hart
Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change? -- Bo Burnham
Relax...90% of haters are begging for love. 10% just want a little attention -- Paulo Coelho
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. -- Denis Diderot
You call that begging? Oh, Kitten, you can do better than that... -- Jeaniene Frost
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. -- Oscar Wilde
The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit... -- Gabrielle Roth
A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees. -- Leonard Cohen
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. -- Agnes Repplier
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. -- Irving Stone
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. -- Jeanette Winterson
People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action. -- Jay Abraham
Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past. -- Tabitha Suzuma
ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE -- Widad Akrawi
Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli -- Janet Evanovich
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work. -- Philip José Farmer
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work. -- Philip José Farmer
There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now. -- Karen Wheaton
Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it. -- M.F. Moonzajer
[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction? -- Chuck Todd
I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation. -- Penny Reid
I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there. -- Taylor Swift
Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. -- George Carlin
We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. -- Malcolm X
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. -- Saint Augustine
You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz. -- Russell Simmons
I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection. -- DMX
Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned. -- Warren Zevon
Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment. -- T. D. Jakes
You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall. -- Jim Rohn
Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee. -- Malcolm X
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. -- Bernard Berenson
I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one. -- Hal Holbrook
A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem. -- T. B. Joshua
Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems. -- Aryn Kyle
Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. -- Markus Zusak
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground -- Jamie McGuire
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it. -- Josh Lanyon
You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. -- Pete Domenici
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground. -- Jamie McGuire
For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more. -- Brian M. Boyce
Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire. -- Neville Goddard
So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate! -- Sark
You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well. -- Elinor Wylie
In a whisper he began begging for?and, as the sun set, received?the concession people always beg for: a little more time. -- Zadie Smith
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. -- Amanda Hocking
Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone. -- David Platt
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so. -- Julius Charles Hare
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. -- Ledisi
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten. -- Lisa Kleypas
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved. -- Suzanne Collins
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
Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn't quite discern which. -- Sarah MacLean
God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone? -- Anne Rice
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed. -- Frank Zappa
I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness -- Christine Piper
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe. -- Lena Horne
You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them-- -- D. H. Lawrence
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. -- Libba Bray

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