Please Quotes · Page 33

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

— Blaise Pascal

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

— Katie Couric

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

— Herman Melville

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

— Oscar Wilde

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

— John McCain

Filter from your tap, and if you do occasionally buy the bottles, please recycle.

— Tara Stiles

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

— Jim Lovell

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

— Haruki Murakami

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

— Timothy Keller

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

— John Hagee

Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and…

— Cate Tiernan

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the…

— Alec Baldwin

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who…

— Victoria Woodhull

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

— Yoko Ono

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a…

— Dean Koontz

I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong... Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long! Then it…

— Fatlip

Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves… Most women-it…

— Lydia Lunch

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and…

— George Galloway

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance…

— Cordell Hull

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious.…

— John Lydon

It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds…

— George Crabbe

Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow…

— Saul Bellow

We believe that worship is far more than prayer and preaching and gospel performance. The supreme act of worship is to keep…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter…

— Alexandra Adornetto

I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city…

— Marguerite Duras

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a…

— Rick Santorum

If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my…

— David Keirsey

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I can't shout, I can't cry convincingly, and please don't make me dance.

— Vijay Antony

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

— Liam Payne

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

— Ang Lee

Please deal with the Radical Islamic Threat today.

— Bobby Jindal

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping...

— John Lennon