pleadings QUOTES

1 " What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf. "

― Richelle E. Goodrich , Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

2 " I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life on them. The creases and folds in his body were testament to the cruelty that he had been subjected to in this world. The watery eyes screamed of the pain, the agonising wait to leave this godforsaken place forever, that had given him nothing but pleadings for mercy. "

― Ashay Abbhi

3 " It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around. "

― Orson Scott Card , Earth Awakens (The First Formic War, #3)

4 " Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance. "