Please Quotes · Page 67

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my…

— Iyanla Vanzant

You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

— Nas

People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing,…

— Skeme

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever,…

— Doris Day

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

— Plautus

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body…

— Rita Rudner

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my…

— Lord Byron

If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often…

— Sarah McLachlan

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.…

— Quentin Crisp

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to…

— Khalil Gibran

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what…

— Anonymous

We should never think that once we have given some money and time to the Lord that the rest is ours to…

— Theodore Epp

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks…

— Emma Thompson

On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal…

— R. A. Salvatore

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock…

— Libba Bray

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when…

— Thomas Merton

There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me…

— Rick Riordan

A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so…

— Thabo Mbeki

No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing…

— Taylor Swift

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot…

— Thomas Merton

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives…

— Henry David Thoreau

After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can…

— Charles Kingsley

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us…

— John Green

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of…

— Anonymous

Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that…

— Cassandra Clare

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

— Molly Ivins

"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!

— Robert Schumann

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still…

— Chris Colfer

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go…

— Grant Morrison

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord…

— Max Anders

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some…

— Aristophanes

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a…

— Joseph Lowery

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

— Charles M. Schulz

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

— Benjamin Franklin

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to…

— Mallory Ortberg

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

— Martin Luther

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel…

— Anonymous