#plea

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#almighty #almighty god #cannot #confide #councils

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#by the time #cover #how #i #information

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#pleasure #selfishness #age

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. ↗

— Alex Cox

#finding #new #new ways #pleasure #projects

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#please #protecting #shoot #threat #unarmed

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ↗

— William Cowper

#fatal #laid #pleasure #remorse

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant. ↗

— Marton Csokas

#around #eleven #get #i #like

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. ↗

— Claire Danes

#desperately #girl #good #good girl #growing