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For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again. -- Edith Tiempo
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. -- Clifton Fadiman
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. -- Merle Shain
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. -- Charles Caleb Colton
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. -- Jesus Christ
And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical. -- Jane Mayer
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. -- Emily Dickinson
Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. -- Rebecca Romijn
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. -- Michael Connelly
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it. -- Joshua Michael Stern
Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place. -- Ike Barinholtz
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online? -- John Battelle
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles. -- Gerry Spence
All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. -- Bryant McGillns
All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. -- Bryant McGillns
The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs. -- Kelly Miller
My wife has to be the worst cook. I've got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer. -- Rodney Dangerfield
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it! -- Seneca the Younger
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. -- Rumi
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. -- Christina Baldwin
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out. -- Peter Porter
Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams? -- Nancy Holder
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. -- Jack Vance
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy? -- Martin Bashir
The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face? -- Jay Leno
While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering. -- Jen Hatmaker
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. -- Clifton Fadiman
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling. -- Rumi

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