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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
In Dutch football you see a lot of individual quality, but in American football it's really about teamwork. That really appeals to me.
Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it is not a bad living!
We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.
I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.
The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.
I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
Real Madrid is my home and if I have the opportunity to go back and do something important, or something that really appeals to me, I'll do it.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer, I'm on.
Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.