Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me. - Jean Moreau, Abbey of Kervennec, France
People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting. - Stormie Omartian
Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities. - Adeline Yen Mah
I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself - Virginia Woolf
And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about - pleasefindthis
People need to get smart and understand that politics is a wrong bussiness for ugly people and those ugly people are "Politicians" so please do not trust politicians and do not have any faith in politic. - Arash Tabish
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly. - Krister Stendahl
You can’t always please everybody, but you can do what makes you happy and just hope that those around you will be happy for you. - Robert Tew
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. - Ayn Rand
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace. - Anthony Liccione
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. - Groucho Marx
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
...I thought, God, I promise to stay a virgin, just please don't let anyone probe me. - Stephanie Tromly
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund. - C.S. Lewis
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner
Vegans are always wrong, but damn pleased with themselves - Rasmussen
if that can't be your let that be remain for you but please keep your ego with you - romance bam
Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage. - Carla H. Krueger
The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Please thaw my permafrost heart. - John Mark Green
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. - C. Wright Mills
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery. - Anthony Liccione
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. - Solon
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please - Mark Twain
I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis. - Widad Akreyi
Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts. - Francis de Sales
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. - Dorothy Parker
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. - Miguel de Cervantes
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. - Mother Jones
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling
Common will please, but never impress. - Avinash Rao
Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. - Shannon Celebi
Please hold onto your kindess, we share the world with many selfish beings And we need open hearts to create change. - Nikki Rowe
When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace. - Gugu Mona
Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks. - Love The Stacks Bookstore
Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together and go for a boot cut, please? Ladies? - Jennifer Garner
i see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels. - Nikki Rowe
Please leave the stone on the seat, it is to keep out the mink. - S. K. Tremayne
Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. - Andrea Gibson
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. - Marianne Moore
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. - Dan Harmon
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. - Sir Walter Raleigh
The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself. - Chanda Kaushik
Rudy, please, wake up, God**** it, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up... - Marcus Zusak
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. - Herbert Bayard Swope
I am not bound to please thee with my answers. - William Shakespeare
Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration! - Surgeo Bell
When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream. - John Lennon
Sto fidgeting Bella please try to a murder here. - Stephenie Meyer
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. - Naomi Wolf
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. - Diogenes the Cynic
Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please. - R.A.Delmonico
Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed. - CM Punk
All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. - Alice Walker
May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here. - William Lenthall
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. - Mahatma Gandhi
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody. - E.A. Bucchianeri
Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. - Janet Evanovich
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent. - Nike Thaddeus
To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility. - Jim George
For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow
please, love, leave,like leaf from tree;taking beauty,leaving seed - Andrew McMillan
Please do not ever think I am without you or you are without me, I live with you all the time. - Santosh Kalwar
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Unknown
Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. - Patti Smith
Never forget the nine most important words of any family-I love you.You are beautiful.Please forgive me. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write. - Charlotte Eriksson
People-pleasers feel they must constantly be performing acts of service to others to gain acceptance. That requires a lot of work, effort, and energy. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label. - Eddie Capparucci, LPC
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us - E.E. Cummings
Don't make excuses for your mistakes.Don't try to please your enemies.Don't run from your responsibilities.Don't force your opinions on others.Don't complain about things you can change.Don't compare yourself to anyone.Don't let undeserving people into your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker. - Curt Flood
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me. - Santosh Kalwar
Please don't cry one tear for me, I'm not afraid of what I have to say.This is my one and only voice, so listen close... it's only for today. - Shinedown
Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives! - Mohsen Sheha
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. - Danny Gregory
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. - P.J. O'Rourke
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. - Arthur C. Clarke
Winning and Loosing is a part of game,Arrogance is the animal you need to tame,Conscience is the thing which can get you fame,Oh GOD !! please help me to do the same. - Rajinder Singh Gill
Confidents we all lack but remember, you are beautiful, you are smart and this world was meant for you to be in it so please have heart.. - Alcurtis Turner
Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again. - Kamand Kojouri
Welcome, welcomePlease feel welcomedWelcome, oh welcomeWe are pleased to have you here. - CJ Quinn
How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am! - George MacDonald
Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you - Katherine Allred
Now please don't refer to yourself ass some woman I fuck occasionally because, quite frankly, it makes me mad, and you really wouldn't like me when I"m angry. - E.L. James
The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!! - Meryl Streep
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. - Samuel Johnson
Streets full of water; please advise. - Robert Benchley
How can you find your soul, if you please every soul? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. - Nancy B. Brewer
And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. - Walter Scott
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father. - Max Lucado
Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting. - Love The Stacks Bookstore
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."
There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Actually it's just a thought in your mind. Please put in clear your mind with that thoughts.!! - Qasim Raza Qadri
Please — consider me a dream. - Franz Kafka
God Please help Man find his lost Freedom faster. So that the rest of the creatures on earth who deserve it more can have theirs back. - Surabhi Dhar
Dear heart, love everyone and anyone. Please make me nonjudgmental. - Debasish Mridha
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book. - Richard P. Denney
Don’t try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror. - Millen Livis
I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please . . . no comments on my author face! - C.C. Alma
I have only one prayer and that is, Please give me endless power to love. - Debasish Mridha
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes -- O'er Ceylon blow your breath, Where every prospect pleases, Save only that of death. Bishop Sheber - Ambrose Bierce
The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us. - Theodore Roosevelt
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
People say that they want to kill me. All I say is "I'm sorry but your appointment doesn't start until another hour, please sit in the waiting room. - BlackStar103
I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies! - Hamid Karima
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. - Saint Augustine
Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased - ArLeaBelle
When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm , pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author . Worship me. - Derek Landy
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) - Patti Smith
Jingle bells, they ring in hell,never to be merry,they'll burn, they'll burn,please my dear be weary - Eva N.
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. - William Blake
One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please. - Unarine Ramaru
People pay attention to the things they want to listen, anything that doesn't please them is rubbish. - Himmilicious
There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision. - Sunday Adelaja
Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord. - William Branks
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. - Bill Cosby
We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. - L. M. Montgomery
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. - Karl Marx
I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About. - Nicholas Dettmann
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds. - Anthony Liccione
Every man shall find his own desire; there is no one thing which pleases all: one man gathers thorns and another roses. - Petronius
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend. - Gary L. Francione
Streets flooded. Please advise. - Robert Benchley
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. - Kazuo Inamori
The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people. - Anne Graham Lotz
I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now. - Barbara Field Benziger
Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? - Zhuangzi
Please let me know if I am not hereLet me know if I fail to find you thereFor before the dawn I leave the night behind meAnd before my heart I let you leave me behind. - Munia Khan
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. - Margaret Mitchell
Would you please shut up and sit down! - George Bush
A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good. - Anonymous
The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please. - Euphoria Godsent
Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees. - Jennifer Sodini
Please don't talk into the middle of other people's crotch! - Nakata Yumi
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn
Please don't ask me to remember things that are going on around me... I have a dozen other lives I do that for every day in my head. - Jennifer Byars
Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal you. Let me LOVE you. Please. - Zuky rose Leigh
...90 Times to be viewed a work which is state: Progress sounds like a lot of to me... but please don't lie and say that you what I to continu, don't ya??? - Deyth Banger
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself. - Anton Chekhov
Please, Tommy. Please - James Dashner
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. - C.S. Lewis
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras
The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain. - Marty Rubin
I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now. - Barbara Field Benziger
Pardon me Mam,I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house? - Frank Calvin Mann
Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But pray, please do explain who created the singularity? - Ashwin Sanghi
My Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers run like a raging river. I'm now in the editing process with my next thriller, "The Apothecary." Please go to my website for excerpts, synopses, and book trailers of all my works: . Marshall Chamberlain - http://www.gracepublisihing.org
...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. - Cecily von Ziegesar
If there is silence between us, please be the one who breaks it. - Daniel Englisch
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. - Wisława Szymborska
Have peoples FUNDAMENTAL rights been compromised ?Answers please. - Dr. Chukuma
P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug - Jodi Lynn Anderson
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. - Friedrich Schiller
Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom. - Saurabh Sharma
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. - Plutarch
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan. - Gary L. Francione
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway. "Shhh," I urged.I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that."Please don't," I choked. - Prince Maxon, "The One" by Kiera Cass
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth. - Charles R. Swindoll
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. - Ronald Reagan
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. - Ambrose Bierce
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
Please always see the bright side of everything. - P.R. Sarkar (Shrii Shrii A’nandamu’rti)
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins - Else Lasker-Schüler
The chip in your body, call it soul if you please, carries on its bad and good. And in this or next lifetime, your dues are paid in full. - Fakeer Ishavardas
The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. - Jean de La Bruyère
Date a girl who travels they said, but please, know that you will never tame her nor keep her. Because she’ll never sign her letters off with a your truly - but always with a see you when I see you - lauren klarfeld
Scribblings of love are on your heartSo you think you can find it anywhere...Darling please beware not everyone has your heart. - Jasmine Sandozz
It is not what you say, but how you say it. "Pick that pencil up! -would you mind picking up the pencil? - would you please pick up the pencil?" The way things are said, makes a huge difference in what people think of you. I told my daughter this many times. - Linda B D
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them. - Trevor Driggers
I hear a small voicein the back of my mindand it is chanting a prayer:‘Please don’t fall in love again,please don’t fall in love again.’Maybe this time I will listen.Maybe this I will learn. - Tina Tran
But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try. - Chris Colfer
If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, It’s all yours—please keep it beating. - Toni Sorenson
Ordinary will please, but never impress. - Avinash Rao
You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong. - Morrissey
Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me. - Deyth Banger
Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white—I should not fear the foe then—I should not fear the fight! - Emily Dickinson
If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure. - Francis de Sales
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. - Ambrose Bierce
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you want to succeed then please break that relationship which is interfering with your brain. - Tanmaya Guru
I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. - Charlotte Bronte
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Please challenge me becausewhenever I am challenged, I learn away to survive and a brillianttechnique to fight. - Rohan Nath
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. - A.L. Kennedy
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and the heart replies. - William Cowper
Tomorrow will u ever come? Please don't fuck me - Raju Paliwal
I have become an orchidwashed in on the salt white beach.Memory,what can I make of it nowthat might please you-this life, already wastedand still strewn with miracles? - Mary Ruefle
There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need to see but no one to meet. And there are many contacts in your phone but no one to talk. There are many masks in your closet but no face to please. - Jasz Gill
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases. - Nia Vardalos
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it? - Deyth Banger
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn) - Mercedes Lackey
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker
Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. - Neil Diamond
A thousand ways to please your wife boil down to two words: Yes, dear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. - Jesse Jackson
I want you to smile. I want you to truly smile today.Realize that right now you are where you need to be. And, there is no need to rush. You are on-time, you always have been and you will always be. Please keep smiling. - Ana Ortega
I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election? - L.M. Fields
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? - Gustave Flaubert
poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light. - Sanober Khan
Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
If you will please people, you must please them in your own way. - Lord Chesterfield
He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance. - Francis de Sales
I would rather serve God and displease my flesh than serve my flesh and displease God. - Mandy Fender
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down. - NASA
Now the snow's coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby please come home - Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. - Ayn Rand
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?~SHEESH~ - Dakota Dawn
If you are not pleased with what you see with your eyes, close your eyes and learn to see from your heart, this is where the true beauty lies. - Fabulous Godwin
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. - Samuel Johnson
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
It's a free world to do as you please, within the law, however it's also free to have an opinion - as well as morals, ethics and decency. - Auliq-Ice
Sometimes there’s a fire in your life and you ask God,Lord, let me go around the fire. And God says, No.Then you ask, Lord, then let me go over the fire.And God says, No. Then you ask, Well Lord, please let me go under the fire. And God says, No. Go through the fire and I’ll be with you. - Lydia Thornton
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. - Harper Lee
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. - Lauren DeStefano
PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition. - Ambrose Bierce
You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them. - pleasefindthis
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am sorry for when I do it hopefully one day you'll realise why. Please do not be angry; just understand that today I tried. - Isabel Aanya Leigh
Okay, time to play doctor.Her entire body quivered, sending yes please vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. Sure, if I can be the doctor.His mouth curved. I’m willing to take turns, but me first. - Jill Shalvis
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another. - Gautama Buddha
look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you... - Colette
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. - Homer
He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir--- - Edouard Manet
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. - John Henry Newman
Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work. - Thomas A. Edison
Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?Please try to describe the picture as much vocabulary as possible! - Deyth Banger
Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself - Zelda Fitzgerald
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. - Michel de Montaigne
Please, let them be little,‘Cause they’re only that way for a while.Give them hope, give them praise,Give them love every day.Let ‘em cry, let ‘em giggle,Let ‘em sleep in the middle,Oh, but let them be little. - Billy Dean
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. - Joseph Rickaby
If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first. - honeya
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy - Isaac Newton
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. - H.L. Mencken
Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. - Alice Walker
Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him. - Francis de Sales
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. - Mother Teresa
And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. - David Gaider
The women’s entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults… these are women’s duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood. - Jacques Rousseau
UFO.... MIB???UFO = MIB??!?What now... please keep the silence! - Deyth Banger
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' - Earl Warren
Who ever enters here, honors me; who ever does not-- pleases me. - Anatole France
My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well. - Kamand Kojouri
Power is the ability not to have to please - Elizabeth Janeway
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. - Peter Gärdenfors
The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases. - Marty Rubin
She'd never tolerated deception regarding her strong opinions--that much was true. But wasn't it also true that when it came to trying to please in matters that weren't crucial to her, that didn't compromise her sense of things, she had been dishonest? - Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera
Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us. - Gene L. Coon
I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable. - Jane Austen
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain. - Aesop
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink,owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please. - Piet Hein
The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot. - Shannon L. Alder
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
noone knows and noone seeswe lovers doing what we pleasebut people stop and point at theseten milk bottles a-turning into cheese - Roger McGough
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. - William Hazlitt
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001] - Molly Ivins
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. - Gary L. Francione
The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please. - Euphoria Godsent
More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest;And deal full many a thoughtless blow,To those who love us best. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. - Ashṭāvakra
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Ithink we all experience the same thing. We resent thethought that anything can please us when someone we loveis no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almostfeel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when wefind our interest in life returning to us. - L.M. Montgomery
Find yourself. And if you don’t like what you see, re-create yourself. But first, please, find yourself. - Akif Kichloo
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry. - Benjamin N. Cardozo
Make requests, not demands.example: please kill that zombie honey, I’m out of bullets. - Jesse Petersen
I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most. - pleasefindthis
Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely. - Arina Tanemura
Whenever I die, Please do not write 'r.i.p' next to my name. - Andrea L'Artiste
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.) - Mark Twain
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A fig for those by law protected!Liberty's a glorious feast!Courts for cowards were erected,Churches built to please the priest! - Robert Burns
I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet. - Anya
You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more. - Bamigboye Olurotimi
And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers. - Rick Riordan
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me]. - Toba Beta
Now I'm awake and you're here. Now I'm dreaming and you're here. Now I have nothing but days. Never nights. - pleasefindthis
Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing. - Francis de Sales
Knowledge is the life of the mind - Abu Bakr May Allah Pleased With Him
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. - Edmund Spenser
But the wild things cried, Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!And Max said, No!The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye. - Maurice Sendak
The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come after us and audit our accounts. - William T. Hornaday
Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams. - Israelmore Ayivor
My life didn't please me, so I created my life. - Coco Chanel
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. - Huldrych Zwingli
Sometimes, we become afraid to change because others judgment and opinions. Then, we making puerile excuses to please others, not ourselves. - Rofithah Omar
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show. - Mitch Hedberg
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik - Gaston Leroux
A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads. - Quentin R. Bufogle
I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fanciful form: meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find simplicity in a subtle strangeness. - Oscar Wilde
Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please. - Radhe Maa
We cannot please all men but we can be a blessing to many. - Mac Canoza
And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen. Jenny blinked. I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead? - Maggie Osborne
We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us. - Wilson Benton
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. - H.L. Mencken
Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life. - Harry Crosby
May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. - Traci LaRussa
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. - Ai Yazawa
WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke." - Ambrose Bierce
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!! - Assegid Habtewold
This isn't a game," he repeats. It's real. What you do here determines your survival. He pauses. "And the survival of every other person on this planet.I laugh.He doesn't. And that tells me he's either serious or seriously crazy. Please let him be crazy. - Eve Silver
While the bible is GOD because the word of GOD is GOD, please understand that GOD cannot be contained in the bible. To believe otherwise is to make an infinite GOD finite. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down. - Dave Matthews Band
Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.) - Jeffrey Cranor
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. - John Keats
i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself - Stan The Man SA
Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in. - Karen Salmansohn
Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world. - Roshan Sharma
...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think. ...you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head. ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change). - Guy P. Harrison
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. - Frederick Douglass
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."Anthony Perkin's Norman BatesTalking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane. - Alfred Hitchcock
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. - Mark Nepo
These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love. - Morrissey
Remember how to breathe, how to live...please!! - Fuyumi Soryo