Top 227 Plead Quotes & Sayings

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

What law enforcement always does is over-charge, and no one can fight it, so the people will plead down and you're stuck within the system.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

A drunkard cannot plead his case.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

You plead guilty you get 20 years, you plead guilty you get 15 years. That's the lowest time I heard and I said I'm no kingpin, I didn't do this. I decided at that moment that I was going to prison and I wasn't going to pay someone to send me to prison. I decided to put the gloves on, string up the boots, and get into the fight.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

I plead the almighty that I leave this world with ghungroos on my feet.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.

We never get so near God as when we plead for others.

I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Before you judge me... I plead guilty

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.

Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.

Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.

People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.