Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.
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Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not lon... UNKNOWN Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg. MARGARET LAURENCE Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, give... ERATOSTHENES Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be
In commune held by Pallas and by thee?
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ROALD DAHL God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next pers... RICK RIORDAN Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender. ELIZABETH GILBERT Lord, please be with me as my daughter and I get older; she's getting faster and I'm getting slower. KAT BEA Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied. DARREN SHAN [At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most r... CHARLES ANDERSON LORD please give me the opportunity to SAVE my money before it has a reason to be spent. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I have entered Your Sanctuary, Lord; please save me, as You have saved the idiots and fools. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I know how to do this. I'm fine. I've got food until Christmas. I've got water until Carnival. You c... BOB RUE Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends. I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you... TOBA BETA Who is it?" I asked teasingly "Bigfoot," Dex answered from his room. "What do you want, Mr... KARINA HALLE Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. An... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Lord, Har, Har, please forgive me and unite me with Yourself. Servant Nanak is a lowly worm. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Through countless lifetimes and incarnations, I was separated from Him. O Lord, you are my Friend an... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line ... AUGUST WILSON I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr... ROBERT BURNS 'Please, Lord, save my baby, save baby.' That was all I could do. 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ROB THURMAN Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The True Lord, the Formless One, is Himself in His Own Place. I have heard, over and over again, and... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to ... BIBLE THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police. GEORGE CARLIN Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash�... SHERRILYN KENYON When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low. GEORGE FOX He asked me, 'Who are you?' I said, 'I don't know, can you please tell me who am I?' He had no answe... TANMAYA GURU What the hell?” Helena objected. “And would someone please flick a Bic or rub two sticks togethe... MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF I fall at His Feet to please and appease Him. The True Guru has united me with the Lord, the Primal ... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Please,’ Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don’t beg. You’ll appear weak DO NOT B... TERESA SCHULZ Please, Lord, tell me what to do! “Mom?” I said later that night. “Yes?” We were sitting on ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Other than the Lord, no one can kill or rejuvenate. GURU GOBIND SINGH Please tell me of your love and respect for Yahweh, Allah, Jesus, or even Marx. Just don’t force i... RADIKALMODERATE Dear Friend, Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and in my own time. Ple... MARGARET BROWNLEY I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or ... DAVID HOBSON Just don’t give up on us. Please, don’t give up. I’m a shell without you, Alayna. I can barely... LAURELIN PAIGE Love is in the air; oh, please let me breathe! HELENE LAGERBERG Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und... JENNIFER ELISABETH O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. WILLIAM PENN Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop." I still. "I can't stomach your p... TAHEREH MAFI ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that."Cake or deat... EDDIE IZZARD I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nice... LIZ REINHARDT Oh..please dont eat me, I have a wife and three kids...eat them! HOMER SIMPSON Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No. JOEL N. ROSS My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name... SUSAN EE Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ... BEN HECHT I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead. "Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, pleas... STEPHENIE MEYER Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. DANA CARVEY I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I live with these thoughts every day, thinking did she try and call out mum' or dad please help'? We... LINDA BOWMAN When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them. BIBLE Sometimes I think I spent forever waiting for you,' he says. 'My whole life, I've never had someone ... AMANDA GRACE I have a tendency to overthink things, especially when it comes to my friends, and I don’t know…... TAMARA IRELAND STONE Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. JANIS JOPLIN Oh, see then, the Simi is not in trouble. I just kill the Greek god and all’s fine. (Simi) Yo... 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Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die b... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'. L.M. MONTGOMERY Please just kill him, MOHAMMED ALI Oh Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I'm talking about. UNKNOWN
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RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ) RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger. Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo... RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties... RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” ... RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an ey... RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr... RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul! RICK RIORDAN In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame ... RICK RIORDAN THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!" Polybotes frowned, obviously confused t... RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ... RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see. RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh... RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought. RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th... RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i... RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret. RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a... RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace.... RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’ ‘How can you even talk to me like t... RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?" He shrugged. "Techn... RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile.... RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend... RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro... RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol... RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind... RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla... RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand... RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga... RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin... RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. RICK RIORDAN How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big ... RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between... RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a... RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Tita... RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.” Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i... RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc... RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest. RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s... RICK RIORDAN