If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you… — Sufyan al Thawri (Essential Sufism Copy Share Image
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else. — William Gadsby Copy Share Image
I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil… — Claude Mandil Copy Share Image
I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much… — Jørgen Randers Copy Share Image
When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't… — Bono Copy Share Image
To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it's probable. Please don't allow the current limits of your… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself:… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open...I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn't heard them. "And that answers… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I'd have avoided some of the pain if I could. Anyone would. But I wouldn't have missed knowing any of the people-even… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?"… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot Copy Share Image
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna. — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
