“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
Source: Castle in the Air
“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”
Source: Castle in the Air
“We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.”
Source: Les Misérables
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Context: To the families of those we've lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand by you tomorrow.
““Pray for those you send, shield them by prayer.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 294).
Talking to his son James http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/11/04/fear_and_strength.html on the night of his landslide victory over Herbert Hoover (8 November 1932), as quoted in Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008) by H. W. Brands
1930s
“Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.”
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
Context: "Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Ballad of Hollis Brown
De Flagello myrteo. xiii.
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
New York Post (4 October 1959)